And if they were all one member, where would be the body?
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
If everyone in the church were equal, there would be no body, because a body is governed according to the difference in the functions of its members. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
5. 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 Paul is continually practising both the one and the other, that they may both believe and may not be confounded; and after silencing them, he again gives a reason likewise. And mark his earnestness in the combat and the completeness of his victory. For from what things they supposed themselves unequal in honor because in them there was great diversity, even from these things he shows that for this very reason they are equal in honor. How, I will tell you.
If all were one member, says he, where were the body?
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