If the whole body were an eye. — Here is shown how absurd it would be for the body to be merely one member, and in 1 Corinthians 12:19 is shown the converse absurdity of the members losing their individuality. There is a corporate body composed of divers members. That is the difference between a dead machine and a living organism.
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1 Corinthians 12:17
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?