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).

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