1 Corinthians 12:6

Of operations.— What these were, we learn from 1 Corinthians 12:8. They are very properly called ενεργηματα, in-workings, because they were above all human power. Men of themselves could do none of them at all; but it was God, as the Apostle tells us here, who, in these extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost, did all that was done: it was the effect of his immediate operation, as St. Paul assures us in that parallel place, Philippians 2:13 in which chapter, 1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 Corinthians 12:14 we find that the Philippians stood a little in need of the same advice which St. Paul presses here at large upon the Corinthians.