If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
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Gill's Exposition
If the whole body were an eye,.... And nothing else,
where were the hearing? there would be no ear, and so no sense of hearing: and if the whole were hearing: or only consisted of a member capable…
Barnes' Notes
If the whole body ... - The idea in this verse is, that all the parts of the body are useful in their proper place, and that it would be as absurd to require or expect that all the members of the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? "Observe here the difference between the Christian doctrine of unity and equality, and the world's idea of levelling all to one standard. The…
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