McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of hearings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of hearings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.
Verse 28. _GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH_] As God has made evident distinctions among the members of the human body, so that some occupy a more eminent place than others, so has he in the Church. An...
AND GOD HATH SET - That is, has appointed, constituted, ordained. He has established these various orders or ranks in the church. The apostle, having illustrated the main idea that God had conferred v...
2. THE BODY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Concerning spiritual manifestations and diversities of gifts. (1 Corinthians 12:1 .)_ 2. The Body and its members. (1 Corinthians 12:12 .) In...
Paul now elaborates an illustration from the body and its members. Here we have organic unity with diversity of function and interdependence of the whole and its parts, interdependence also of the par...
Just as the body is one, although it has many members, and just as all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by the one Spirit we have all been baptized i...
THE CONFESSION OF THE SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12:1-3)...
CHURCH. App-186. APOSTLES... PROPHETS. App-189. TEACHERS. Greek. _didaskalos._ App-98. 1 Corinthians 12:4. MIRACLES. powers. Greek. _dunamis,_ as in 1 Corinthians 12:10. Here it means "workers of m...
_God hath set_ Literally, PLACED, i.e. when He founded the Church. See 1 Corinthians 12:18, of which this is the application. _first apostles_ The Apostles, the founders and rulers of the Church, were...
Comparison of the Unity of the Body and the Unity of the Christian Church 12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members_ This simile is a very common one. It is used on several occasions by the A...
COMPARISON OF THE UNITY OF THE BODY AND THE UNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH...
ΟὝΣ ΜΈΝ. St Paul evidently (see Winer, _Gr. Gram._ § 63) meant οὕς δὲ to follow. But he breaks off the construction by πρῶτον, and, instead of the simple enumeration he had intended, he arranges the o...
_MEMBERS THAT LOVE ONE ANOTHER 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27-31:_ In the close of this chapter we will see the application Paul made concerning the spiritual gifts given in the one body. The church is composed...
ΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087), _см._ 1 Corinthians 12:18. ΠΡΏΤΟΝ (G4412) _асс. sing._ во-первых, ΔΕΎΤΕΡΟΝ (G1208) _асс. sing._ вовторых, ΤΡΊΤΟΝ (G5154) асс. sin
GOD HATH SET SOME, &C.— "As God hath placed some members in more eminent stations in the body, so also some Christians in the church. He hath placed in the first rank _Apostles,_ who are honoured with...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Maintaining the Unity of the Church_ (12-31) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Singleness in Diversity (1 Corinthians 12:27-31) 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, s...
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. SET SOME IN TH...
13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. The body of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or the Anointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...
12:28 set (a-4) See Note, ver. 18....
FIRST APOSTLES, etc.] cp. similar list, Ephesians 4:11. It is a list not so much of distinct offices as of functions and gifts, some of which may be combined in the same man. St. Paul was Apostle, pro...
_(E) SPIRITUAL GIFTS_ In the early Church various powers, faculties, and graces were bestowed on individual Christians by the Holy Spirit. Some of these were distinctly miraculous, such as prophecy, t...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 12 *SPIRITUAL GIFTS 12:1-31 1. JESUS IS *LORD 12:1-3 V1 Now about the *Holy Spirit’s gifts, *brothers and *sisters, I do not want to leav...
CHAPTER 18 CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS This Epistle is well fitted to disabuse our minds of the idea that the primitive Church was in all respects superior to the Church of our own day. We turn page a...
1 Corinthians 12:21-31 _a_. § 41. THE MUTUAL DEPENDENCE OF THE BODY'S MEMBERS. Multiformity, it has been shown, is of the essence of organic life. But the variously endowed members, being needful to t...
expounds the μέλη ἐκ μέρους. οὓς μὲν (_cf._ 8 ff.) should be followed by οὒς δέ; but πρῶτον intervening suggests δεύτερον, τρίτον in the sequel “instead of a mere enumeration P. prefers an arrangement...
EACH CONTRIBUTING HIS PART 1 Corinthians 12:20 The hand and the foot obviously stand in need of each other; but the same interdependence marks the feebler and humbler parts of our frame. Indeed, it w...
Now the apostle turned from the corrective section of his letter to the constructive as he proceeded to deal with the spiritualities which negative the carnalities. These are those of the unifying Spi...
Division Is Undesirable Clearly, the facts Paul presented proved God created the body in such a way that division is undesirable. Every member of the physical body feels for the other members. If one...
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, (t) helps, (u) governments, diversities of tongues. (t) The o...
First apostles, &c. Here he sets down these gifts or graces in their order of dignity. 1. The apostles, blessed above others with all kinds of graces. 2. Prophets, who had the gift of interpreting of...
“And God hath set some in the Church...first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, kinds of tongues.” The phrase ἔθετο ὁ θεό...
(27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. (28) And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of heal...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
He has in the beginning of the chapter spoken of _gifts: _now he begins to treat of _offices, _and this order it is proper that we should carefully observe. For the Lord did not appoint ministers, wit...
The other branch of the truth, in reference to the assembly of God in general and to the assemblies, is the presence and the gifts of the Holy Ghost. These, as well as the Lord's supper, are in connec...
AND GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH,.... As before the apostle gives an account of the various different gifts of the Spirit, qualifying men for service in the church of Christ, here he enumerates the...
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Ver. 28. _Diversi...
1 Cor. 12:28. "And God hath set some in the church, first, apostles; secondarily, prophets; thirdly, teachers; after that miracles; then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues....
_And God hath set in the church first apostles_ Who planted the gospel in the heathen nations, being honoured with an office of the highest distinction, and furnished with endowments peculiar to thems...
These were different offices which God established in the churches at first; referred to in verse 1 Corinthians 12:5. APOSTLES; men who had seen Christ after his resurrection, and were commissioned by...
AND GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH, FIRST APOSTLES, SECONDARILY PROPHETS, THIRDLY TEACHERS; AFTER THAT MIRACLES, THEN GIFTS OF HEALINGS, HELPS, GOVERNMENTS, DIVERSITIES OF TONGUES....
The spiritual meaning of the comparison:...
The Lord's supper has been first considered, being the most important of all gatherings, because it is for the united expression of the affections of the saints toward Him. Now ministry toward the sai...
DIVERSITIES: Or, kinds...
AND GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH, FIRST APOSTLES, SECONDLY PROPHETS, THIRDLY TEACHERS, THEN MIRACLES, THEN GIFTS OF HEALINGS, HELPS, GOVERNMENTS, DIVERS KINDS OF TONGUES. 'And God hath set some i...
27-31 Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife, are very unnatural in Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without concern for one another, or quarrelling with each other. The proud, c...
The apostle, EPHESIANS 4:11, seemeth to make a different enumeration; there he saith: _And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers._ He mentio...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III For all the other prophets preached the advent of the paternal Light, and desired to be worthy of seeing Him whom they preached; but John did both announce [the adve...
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS FOR THE WELL-BEING OF CHRIST AND HIS BODY (12:1-14:33). Paul now begins his reply to their question about spiritual gifts ('concerning spiritual things') and immediately gives an initi...
'Now you (the 'you' is emphatic) are the body of Christ, and severally members of it. And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts...
1 Corinthians 12:28. AND GOD HATH SET SOME IN THE CHURCH, FIRST (some to be) APOSTLES, SECONDLY PROPHETS the prophets of the New Testament (not of the Old Testament), on whose functions see on 1 Corin...
GOD HATH SET SOME (ους μεν εθετο ο θεος). See verse 1 Corinthians 12:18 for εθετο ο θεος. Note middle voice (for his own use). Paul begins as if he means to say ους μεν αποστολουσ, ους δε προφητας...
1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led._ Although the mem...
1 Corinthians 12:12. _For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one b...
CONTENTS: Spiritual gifts in the Body of Christ, for ministry and worship. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Body of Christ in the world is for the service for, and manifesta...
1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts,_ and gifts promised to old men, to young men, and to handmaids, according to Joel 2:28, I would now speak, in the third part of this epistle, and a...
IN THE CHURCH, THEN. Nine spiritual gifts were named; nine positions in the church are now given. GOD HAS PUT ALL IN PLACE. Compare 1 Corinthians 12:18. APOSTLES. The Twelve, plus Paul. From them all...
_Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant._ SPIRITUAL GIFTS The particular gifts to which St. Paul was referring were not exactly as a whole like anything that is to be...
_And God hath set some in the Church, first apostles._ HELP-WORK The words which I have taken as my text occupy, you will remember, a somewhat exceptional position. They occur in the midst of what se...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:28 On APOSTLES, see notes on Matt. 10:2; Romans 1:1. prophets
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 Some Corinthian Christians seem to have been creating divisions over spiritual gifts. Paul’s use of the body analogy in 1 Corinthians 12
CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this and the two following Chapter s S. Paul discusses Christian gifts and graces. In this chapter he points out I. That gifts are variously distributed by the...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 12:1.—GIFTS is a translators’ supplement; right in fact, as 1 Corinthians 12:4 show; slightly too precise in word. Almost certainly _neuter_, and so very general, “_spir...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 12:1.—1 Corinthians 14:1.—ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND THE DANGER WHICH AROSE FROM THE
Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you be ignorant (1 Corinthians 12:1). An interesting statement of Paul, because I think that in the church one of the areas where the gre...
1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:7; 1 Peter 5:1; 1 Timothy 5:17;...
Hath set [ε θ ε τ ο]. See on ver. 18. The middle voice implies for His own use. Miracles. Note the change from endowed persons to abstract gifts, and compare the reverse order, Romans 12:6-8. Helps...
CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS 1 Corinthians 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A contrast between the spiritual and the carnal in Abram and Lot (Genesis 18:1 and Genesis 19:1). 2. A contrast between
First apostles — Who plant the gospel in the heathen nations. Secondly prophets — Who either foretel things to come, or speak by extra — ordinary inspiration, for the edification of the church. Thirdl...
Our apostle having in the beginning of the chapter reckoned up the divers gifts which God had variously bestowed upon the church, here in the close of the chapter he reckons up the particular officers...