but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit This consideration absolutely excludes all boasting, all possibility of setting up one gift as essentially superior to another. It is worthy of remark that what is predicated of God in 1 Corinthians 12:6, is here predicated of His Spirit. The word translated workethis the same in both places. "The Spirit worketh, not is worked. He worketh as He will, not as He is bidden." St Chrysostom.

dividing to every man severally as he will Cf. Hebrews 2:4.

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