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Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?
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The Obvious Answer is "No"
Commentators unanimously explain that Paul's series of questions—"Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?"—are rhetorical. The expected and obvious answer to each is a firm "no." This structure powerfully emphasizes that no single spiritual gift is given to every believer.
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1 Corinthians
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Do all interpret? (μη παντες διερμηνευουσιν?). He adds this query to the list in 28, but it is in 10.
19th Century
Baptist
Or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God h…
By these rhetorical questions, all of which imply “no” for an answer, Paul stresses the principle of divine selectivity. Not all believers function…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Have all the gifts of healing ? &c.] No; when these gifts were in being, all had them not. When anointing with oil, …
Presbyterian
Contempt, hatred, envy, and strife are very unnatural in Christians. It is like the members of the same body being without concern for one another …
13th Century
Catholic
Having laid out the distinction among spiritual gifts, the Apostle now explains it using the analogy of a natural body. He first presents the analo…
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