1 CORINTHIANS 12:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?”
Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? — the questions escalate, reaching the gifts most coveted by the Corinthians (tongues, interpretation); Paul's expects negative answer—not all speak in tongues, and not all interpret—directly challenging the Corinthian assumption that tongues-speaking is the sign of spirituality.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:30
“Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?” For even as the great gifts God has not vouchsafed all to all men, but to some this, and to others that, so also did He in respect of the less, not proposing these either to all. And this He did, procuring thereby abundant harmony and love, that each one standing in need of the other might be brought close to his brother. This economy He established also in the arts, this also in the elements, this also in the plants, and in our…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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