EFFECTS (produced by) TIIE FATIIER.
In the first two of these parallel propositions there is an ellipsis of the verb ; but this the mind natur ally supplies from the analogy of the last in which the verb is enunciated (see Henderson on Inspira tion, p. 181).
5. It has appeared to some that there is a cor respondence between the gifts enumerated in verses 8-1o, and the church offices enumerated in ver. 28 (Horsley, Senn. xiv. appendix). The number of both is the same; there are nine gifts and nine offices. But beyond this the correspondence only very partially exists, and in order to give it even a semblance of existing throughout, not only must very fanciful analogies be traced but some palpable errors in interpretation committed (Henderson, p. 183).
6. The sug,gestion of Beza that the enumeration of gifts in ver. 8-to is divided into co-ordinate groups, distinguished by the pronouns ver. 8 ; 4repep 45g, ver. 9 ; gr/pw Se, ver. to, has been very generally followed by interpreters. Thus Meyer arranges them in the following scheme : I. Charisms which relate to intellectual power. X6-yoz a-41as; 2. X6yos -ymicreces.
II. Charisms which are conditioned by heroic faith (Glaubensheroismus). 1. The riares itself , 2. The operation of this in act—a. Icipara; b. gets ; 3. The operation of this in word, rpoctoircia ; The critical operation of this, Std:cptais 7n:cu p:MX III. Charisms relating. to the 7Xacrcrat. 1. Speak ing with tongues ; 2. Interpreting of tongues.
Henderson adopts substantially the same arrange ment (Inspiration, p. 185, ff.), like Meyer, laying stress on the use of the pronoun 4-rgpy in place of aXX(1) by the apostle in his enumeration r grOcp is related because a distinct class follows ; only thus can we account for the apostle's not proceeding with taXcp'—Meyer ; comp. Tittmann, Synonyms, ii. 28, E. T.] To all such attempts at classifica tion De Wette objects-1. That 4; ,u1v, hipy greptp 84 do not stand in relation to each other, but Note Se is ahvays opposed to the nearest pre ceding aXXcp Si, so that neither can the one denote the genus nor the other the species ; 2. If anything could mark a division, it would be the repeated Kara rb atird srvciip.a, lo rc,3 1-v., with the con cluding Irdyra sa raina of ver. r, but even thus we should gain nothing ; for in ver. ro hetero geneous objects are united ; 3. There is no reason
to expect a classification, for the enumeration is not complete, see ver. 2S ; 5. The classification proposed [by Meyer] is in itself unsatisfactory ; plainly the speaking with tongues is more closely akin to prophesying than to gifts of healing ; and as Kling observes, the Siaxploc:s 71,w/harm, and the 6p/Anycla -Acoaa6'n, relate to the understanding and not to heroic faith. In these reasons there is much force ; and though the apostle's arrangement has the aspect of a classified scheme, we feel con strained to conclude with Kling that we must leave it undecided whether and how they can be classi fied. Neander, followed by Billroth and Ols hausen substantially, without insisting, on the apostle's words, contents himself with the obvious division of these charisms into two great classes— the one of which embraces such gifts as manifest themselves by word, and the other such as mani fest themselves by deed ; and each of these pre sents two subordinate classes, determined by the relation of the man's own mental culture and capacity to the working on him of the Spirit ; so that in a man of high culture and intellectual power the N6-yos -yvc6crews would be manifested, while to one of less culture the Holy Spirit would come with a power which overwhelmed his self-consciousness and made him the almost mechanical utterer of what did not pass through the medium of his own intelligence (Apastal. Zeitalt. 174, ff.; E. T. i. 132).
7. Taking in order, as they stand in the text, the gifts enumerated, we have—i. The Veyos a-oc6las and the X6-yos lan6o-ccos. A6-yos. is used here, as frequently elsewhere in the N. T., as sermo, dis course, utterance. To and -yvc2mts various meanings have been attached. A common ex planation is, that croOla is the practical, and -yvCials the theoretical or speculative presentation of truth ; but this, though adopted by Neander, Olshausen, and others, as well as the a.ntithetical opinion ad vanced by Bengel, Storr, Rosenmtiller, etc., that croc6la is the theoretical, and la:Cues the practical, is siffficiently refuted by the consideration that the practical and the theoretical apprehension and ex position of the truth, merely as such, cannot be properly regarded as coming among the mimculous gifts of the Spirit ; such attainments are not Kara.