1 Corinthians 12:16 (WEB)
If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body.
Fathers and councils · 5
John Chrysostom
“And this Paul showed when he said, “If the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?” ( 1 Cor. xii. 16.)” — the author cites it
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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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