1 CORINTHIANS 12:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And if they were all one member, where were the body?”
If they were all one part, where would the body be? — the hypothetical continuation of the reductio: if all members were identical, the body (soma) itself would disappear; there would be no integrated whole, just a collection of identical parts, making the body itself parasitic on diversity.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:19
“And if they were all one member, where were the body?” “But now are they many members, but one body.” Thus having silenced them sufficiently by God's own arrangement, again he states reasons. And he neither does this always nor that, but alternates and varies his discourse. Since on the one hand, he who merely silences, confounds the hearer, and he, on the contrary, who accustoms him to demand reasons for all things, injures him in the matter of faith; for this cause then…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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