If the whole body were an eye.— The Apostle by this intends probably to insinuate, that were there no other gifts in the church but those which they so much extolled in some of their teachers, it would be of very great disadvantage to the body. See Doddridge and Benson.
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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?