1 Corinthians 12:15 (WEB)
If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“Read Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians and learn how the one body is made up of different members.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 12–27.
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Tertullian
“This, too, I may confidently say: he who has likened the unity of our body throughout its manifold and divers members to the compacting together of the various gifts of the Spirit, shows also that there is but one Lord of the human body and of the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 12–30, compared with Eph. iv. 16.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Looking, therefore, to their utility, to which of those parts which are deemed more honourable are these inferior?” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xii. 14–24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Do all interpret?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 8–30.
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