If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
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Gill's Exposition
If the foot shall say,.... The lowest member of the body, which is nearest the earth, treads upon it, sustains the whole weight of the body, and performs the more drudging and fatiguing exercises of…
Barnes' Notes
If the foot shall say ... - The same figure and illustration which Paul here uses occurs also in pagan writers. It occurs in the apologue which was used by Menenius Agrippa, as related by Livy (lib.…
Adam Clarke
If the foot shall say, etc. - As all the members of the body are necessarily dependent on each other, and minister to the general support of the system, so is it in the Church. All the private members…
The apostle here makes out the truth of what was above asserted, and puts the gifted men among the Corinthians in mind of their duty, by comparing the church of Christ to a human body.
I. By telling…
Comparison of the Unity of the Body and the Unity of the Christian Church
12. For as the body is one, and hath many members This simile is a very common one. It is used on several occasions by the…