1 CORINTHIANS 12:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:”
To another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues — the gifts escalate in Paul's list: dynamis (power works), prophetic utterance, diakriseis pneumatōn (discernment of spirits, crucial for testing utterances), glossai heterai (other languages, ecstatic speech), and hermeneia glossōn (the interpretation that makes tongues intelligible to the assembly).
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:10
“To another, faith in the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing in the one Spirit.” Do you see how he every where makes this addition, saying, “through the same Spirit, and according to the same Spirit?” For he knew that the comfort from thence was great. “To another working of miracles; to another prophecies; to another discernings of spirits; to another various kind of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.” Thus, since they boasted themselves in this,…
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