1 CORINTHIANS 12:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.”
All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines — Paul returns to unity: the one Spirit (to hen pneuma) distributes the diverse gifts according to his own will (diairōn), not human preference or effort; the Spirit's sovereignty prevents both envy (you got a better gift) and pride (I earned my gift).
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:11
“But all these works one and the same Spirit.” The universal medicine in which his consolation consists is that out of the same root, out of the same treasures, out of the same streams, they all receive. And accordingly, from time to time dwelling on this expression, he levels the apparent inequality, and consoles them. And above indeed he points out both the Spirit, and the Son, and the Father, as supplying the gifts, but here he was content to make the Spirit, that even…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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