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If the whole body were an eye (ei holon to sōma ophthalmos). The eye is the most wonderful organ and supremely useful (Num 10:31), the very light of the body (Luk 11:34). And yet how grotesque it would be if there were nothing else but a great round rolling eye! A big “I” surely!
The smelling (hē osphrēsis). Old word from osphrainomai, to smell. Here alone in N.T.