But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
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Gill's Exposition
But now hath God set the members,.... The members of a natural body, as they are all made and fashioned by God in the form they be, so they are each of them set by him in the place they are:…
Barnes' Notes
Hath God set the members ... - God has formed the body, with its various members, as he saw would best conduce to the harmony and usefulness of all.
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
But now hath God set Literally, But now (that is, as the case stands) God placed, i.e. at creation.
as it hath pleased him Literally, as He willed. See last note. St Paul would have us draw the…
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