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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Then because after all they were yet disturbed: that which he had done above, the same he doth also now. For as there he first alleged the expediency to comfort them and afterwards stopped their mouths, vehemently saying, "But all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one man severally even as He will:" so also here having stated reasons for which he showed that it was profitable that all should so be, he refers the whole again to the counsel of God, saying, "But now God hath set the members each one of them in …
Theophylact of Ohrid
With great force he shuts their mouths when he says that God willed it, and appointed to each individual member its proper place (for this is what "arranged" means). Neither should the foot, which occupies the lower place, grieve, for so it pleased God, and it is beneficial for it precisely to be placed below. Nor should the head, which is above, be puffed up, for this is from God and not its own doing. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Secondly, he asserts the contrary truth, namely, that neither sight nor hearing should be lacking, saying: But as it is God arranged, i.e., put in order, the various members. For even if the distinction of the members is a work of nature, nevertheless nature did this as an instrument of divine providence. And therefore, he assigns the first cause of the arrangement of the members when he says: God arranged the organs in the body. …
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