{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-141","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?\"</p><p>Thus, because, having fallen upon the difference of the members, and having mentioned feet, and hands, and eyes, and ears, he led them to the consideration of their own inferiority and superiority: see how again he consoles them, intimating that so it was expedient: and that their being many and diverse, this especially causeth them to be a body. But if they all were some one, they would not be a body. Wherefore, he saith, \"If they were all one member, where were the body?\" This however, he mentions not till afterwards; but here he points out also something more; that besides the impossibility of any one being a body, it even takes away the being of the rest.</p><p>\"For if the whole were hearing, where were the smelling,\" saith he.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 30</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Even if the body had only its most important member, it would still be useless without the others.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 247</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"abc338bea97fa883a5a9f158099e9e5b3f142a08079e08e07c92f3c53338843f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":141,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5761e35ed8180fd927e7da671f5b6e27e0336ebbd6b43da18232b0ffa644d0d6","translator":null,"work":null}