1 CORINTHIANS 12:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?”
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? — the series of rhetorical questions (all with expected 'no' answers) reinforces that gifts are distributed, not universal; no one receives all the gifts, preventing any individual from claiming complete spiritual authority.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:29
“Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Have all gifts of healing?” And he does not stop at the first and the second gift, but proceeds to the last, either meaning this that all cannot be all things, (even as he there says, “if all were one member, where were the body?”) or establishing some other point also along with these, which may tell in the way of consolation again. What then is this? His signifying that even the lesser gifts are contended for equally with the greater,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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