...proved ; let them use the office of a-deacon, being found blameless. 1 Tim. 3: 2-10.- — And GoJ hath set some in the church ; first, apostles ; secondarily,...healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. 1 Cor. 12: 28. — Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether...

...giving; ie, from the peculiar work of the pastor, the doctor, and the deacon. Secondly : 1 Cor. xii. 28, " And God hath set some in the church, first,...thirdly, teachers ; after that, miracles ; then gifts of healing, helps, governments, &c." " Helps," we are told, are deacons ; " governments," governors. These...

...giving ; ie, from the peculiar work of the pastor, the doctor, and the deacon. Secondly : 1 Cor. xii. 28, " And God hath set some in the church, first,...thirdly, teachers; after that, miracles; then gifts of healing, helps, governments, &c." " Helps," we are told, are deacons ; " governments," governors. These...

...theory in question, there are two parallel passages of Scripture quoted. The first is, (1 Cor. xii,) " And God hath set some in the Church ; first, apostles...thirdly, teachers ; after that, miracles ; then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." The other is as follows, (Eph. iv,) " And he...

...to every man severally as he will. — 27. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first, Apostles,...thirdly, teachers, after that, miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all Apostles ? are all prophets ? are all...

...of spirits ; to another, divers kind of tongues ; to another, the interpretation of tongues." Ver. 28 : " And God hath set some in the church ; first,...healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." 2 Cor. xiL 12 :" Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs and...

...vocation. God had thus, as it were, determined who should enjoy the principal rank among Christians. "And God hath set some in the Church, first apostles,...healings, helps, governments, diversities of tong-ues.'' (1 COR. xii. 28.) The Apostles in general had no particular community over which they especially presided....

...Those endowed with the power of I speaking various languages. See Note I on ver. 10. I. CORINTHIANS. 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets ? are all teachers...all * workers of miracles ? 30 Have all the gifts of heali or, powers. a c. 14.39. Ь Matt.5.6. Luke 10.42. ing ? do all speak with tongues Î do all interpret...

...clear. In 1 Corinthians, xii. 28, we find the term employed in precisely the same way : " God hath set some in the Church, first apostles, secondarily...healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." All thesi; are said to have been set by God in the Church. Now the meaning of that obviously is, that...

...1 Eph. v. 30. 1 1 Cor. x. 16. * 1 Cor. x. 3. Matt. xxvi. 27- ' Compare Rom. xii. 4—8. particular. And God hath set some in the Church, first apostles,...thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues 1." So it is THE CHURCH, the visible Church, of...