16. If the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body, would it be therefore not [a part] of the body?
17. If the whole body were an eye, where [would be the sense of] hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where [would be the sense of] smell?
18. But as it is, God has placed and arranged the limbs and organs in the body, each [particular one] of them, just as He wished and saw fit and with the best adaptation.
19. But if [the whole] were all a single organ, where would the body be?
20. And now there are [certainly] many limbs and organs, but a single body.
21. And the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.