1 Corinthians 12:17 (WEB)
If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
““He fashioneth their hearts singly:” He giveth spiritually to their hearts their proper gifts, so that neither the whole body may be eye, nor the whole hearing; but that one in this manner, another in that manner, may be incorporated with Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 17.
Read the whole comment“It was of this body that the Apostle was speaking, when he wrote, taking his metaphor from our own body, “If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?” etc. What he wished understood by these words, he has expressed more clearly, by adding, “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 17–21.
Read the whole comment“Do all interpret?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 8–30.
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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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Ambrose of Milan
“If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 17.
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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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Cross-references · 9
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