The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:15
If the foot shall say, etc. So Seneca says, "What if the hands should wish to injure the feet, or the eyes the hands? As all the members agree together because it is the interest of the whole that each should be kept safe, so men spare their fellow men because we are born for heaven, and society cannot be saved except by the love and protection of its elements" ('De Ira,' 2:31). And Marcus Aurelius: "We have been born for mutual help, like the feet, like the hands, like the rows of upper and... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
The Church compared to a body and its members. read more