성경 주석서

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

1 Now concerning spiritual gifts , brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

I would not have you ignorant — To wit, of the only author and true end of them, "lest ye be vainly puffed up by your fleshly mind," Colossians 2:18 . Ignorance breeds pride, Revelation 3:17 .

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Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

Even as ye were led — It is the misery of a natural man that hath not his heart stablished with grace, to be carried away as he is led, to be wherried about with every wind of doctrine, to have no mould but what the next seducer casteth him into; being blown like a glass into this or that shape, at the pleasure of his breath.

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Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

Calleth Jesus accursed — As the wicked Jews do in this day in their daily prayers and abbreviature; and as the Gentiles did of old, and these Corinthians among the rest. But now they would rather die than do so; as Pliny writes to Trajan the emperor, that he could never force any that were Christians indeed, either to invocate the gods, or to do sacrifice before the emperor’s image, or to curse Christ, Quorum nihil cogi posse dicuntur qui sunt revera Christiani. (Plin. Epist.)

And that no man can say, … — That is, no man can, with the fiducial assent of his heart, acknowledge Christ to be the only Lord, whom he is to worship by the same impulsions, by which another curses aud blasphemes him, but by such peculiar motives as are suggested and revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost.

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Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

But the same Spirit — As the divers smell of flowers come from the same influence, and the divers sounds in the organ from the same breath.

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And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

Differences of administrations — i.e. Ecclesiastical functions, all of them the dona honoraria of the Lord Christ, Ephesians 4:8-11 .

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And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Diversities of operations — The Holy Ghost may use one of less grace to do more good than one of more; though he delights to honour those of most sincerity with most success, as1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 15:10 .

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But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

To profit withal — We are neither born nor born again for ourselves. If we be not fit to serve the body, neither are we fit to be of the body; he is not a saint that seeketh not communion of saints. Pudeat illos, qui ita in studiis se abdiderunt, ut ad vitam communem nullum fructum ferre possint, saith Cicero. They may well be ashamed that employ not their talents for a public good. Paulum sepultae distat inertiae celata virtus. Hor. The Greek word το συμφερον importeth such a kind of profit, as redounds to community. It seemeth to be a metaphor from bees, that bring all the honey they can get to the common hive.

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For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

The word of wisdom — "The tongue of the learned," to time a word, Isaiah 50:4 , to set it upon its circumferences,Proverbs 25:11; Proverbs 25:11 , to declare unto man his righteousness, when not one of a thousand can do it like him, Job 33:23 .

The word of knowledge — This, say some, is the doctor’s office, as the former word of wisdom is the pastor’s (Mr Edwards). But the essential difference between pastors and doctors in each congregation is much denied by many learned and good divines. Others by "the word of wisdom" will have understood knowledge infused by divine revelation; as by "the word of knowledge," that knowledge that is acquired by study and industry. (Barlow. Taylor upon Titus.)

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