1 Corinthians 12:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the foot shall say, etc. - As all the members of the body are necessarily dependent on each other, and minister to the general support of the system, so is it in the Church. All the private members are intimately connected among themselves, and also with their pastors; without which union no Church can subsist.