1 CORINTHIANS 12:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed — Paul turns to the charismata (grace-gifts), the manifestations of the Spirit in the congregation; the plural pneumatikoi (things of the Spirit) indicates the variety and multiple expressions of the one Spirit's work.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:1
This whole place is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place. And why do they not happen now? Why look now, the cause too of the obscurity has produced us again another question: namely, why did they then happen, and now do so no more? This however let us defer to another time, but for the present let us state what things were occurring then.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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