1 Corinthians 14:37

ἐστὶν ἐντολή. So Lachmann and Tregelles, and Westcott and Hort, with אAB. Tischendorf omits ἐντολή with DEFG, most copies of the Vetus Lat. and Origen. Rec. reads εἰσὶν ἐντολαί with Vulg. Peshito.

37. εἴ τις δοκεῖ προφήτης εἶναι. Not, as A.V., ‘if any man,’ but ‘if any one.’ See note on 1 Corinthians 11:16. Women (see 1 Corinthians 11:5) laid claim to the prophetic gift and even possessed it. There were many appointed teachers (see ch. 1 Corinthians 12:28-29) who were not prophets, and therefore the test of the prophetic character was not ordination, but the possession of the prophetic gift. If any one fancied he possessed that gift, he was required to submit himself to the test of his willingness to obey God’s appointed founder and ruler of the Church.

πνευματικός, i.e. possessed of any special spiritual gift. Cf. 1 Corinthians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 3:1; Galatians 6:1.

κυρίου … ἐντολή, i.e. Christ. See ch. 1 Corinthians 7:10; 1 Corinthians 7:12; 1 Corinthians 9:2.