Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 12:16

16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? .

It should seem by these expressions, that one great cause of those divisions, which the Apostle had charged the Church of Corinth with, was their difference in Gifts, Ministrations, and Operations; which was to that degree, that either those who were higher in Gifts and Ministrations, and more famous for their miraculous Operations, despised and vilified those that were inferiour to them; or those who were lower in Gifts, or in their stations in the Church, or their power to work Miracles, would not owne themselves Members of the Church at Corinth, because they were in those low, and inferiour orders and degrees. The Apostle argueth the unreasonableness of this, by a further comparing of the natural with the spiritual mystical Body, the Church▪ and sheweth, it was altogether as unreasonable, for men to disclaim the Church, and their relation to it, because they had not the most eminent gifts, or were not in the most eminent places and Offices; as for the foot to say, It was not of the body, because it was not the hand; or for the ear to say, It was not of the body, because it was not the eye.