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Gill's Exposition
And if they were all one member,.... As all eye, or all ear, or all hand, or all foot:
where were the body? where would be the body? it would not be a body consisting of such proper and suitable…
Barnes' Notes
And if all were one member - If there were nothing but an eye, an ear, or a limb, there would be no body The idea which this seems intended to illustrate is, that if there was not variety of talent…
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 they were all one member, where were the body? The Christian Church, as St Paul continually teaches, was a body; that is, an organism which contained a vast number and variety of parts, each one…