 | Saint John Chrysostom - 1839 - 728 pages
...above us, but those who are a little higher, therefore he also conducts his comparison thus. Ver. 17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? HoMIL. inferiority and superiority : see how again he consoles them, ' intimating that so it was... | |
 | 1841 - 880 pages
...different to what it is, great inconvenience would follow ; the whole body would be deranged ; for •' if the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? but now hath God set the members, every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him," (1 Cor. xii.... | |
 | John Clarke Crosthwaite - 1840 - 568 pages
...the body ? And if the ear shall say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it, therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...the body ? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling .' 18 But now hath God set the ,. The different membersof society, members every one of them high and... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 444 pages
...the body ? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him. And if they... | |
 | Archibald Douglas (of Reading.) - 1840 - 408 pages
...but many. 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 whole body were an eye, where...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ?" So on to verse 27. Thus in the church of Christ as his body, there are particular offices ; some... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1840 - 396 pages
...hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing...whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? And now are there many members, but yet one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of... | |
 | William Sewell - 1840 - 446 pages
...moral characteristics are obliterated, and with them our moral sentiments. And so, too, of society.1 " If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?...If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...was useless, because he was not more highly gifted, and did not occupy a more elevated rank. VEB. 17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?...if the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? If the whole body, &c. — The idea in this verse is, that all the parts of the body are useful in... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1840 - 638 pages
...comparison in that chapter, of (he church of Christ with a human body; as where he saith, versel?. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing ? If the rvhole were hearing, where were the smelling? Sfc. Jlho the apostle not only distinguisheth the ministers... | |
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If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 
