A.T. Robertson Commentary 1 Corinthians 12:17

"If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?" — 1 Corinthians 12:17 (ASV)

If the whole body were an eye (ε ολον το σωμα οφθαλμος). The eye is the most wonderful organ and supremely useful (Numbers 10:31), the very light of the body (Luke 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 (η οσφρησις). Old word from οσφραινομα, to smell. Here alone in N.T.