All of this is true as far as it goes. But what Paul is saying goes much further. There are three things here in particular. For a start, he isn’t simply choosing this as one ‘illustration’ at random. (In our last passage, I used the illustration of the orchestra like that—simply as an example of a sphere of life where everybody does something different and it’s all supposed to work together.) When he talks about a human being, a human body, he is writing as a Jewish thinker for whom, with Genesis