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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:8

The word of wisdom… the word of knowledge. In modern usage, "knowledge" is the learning which we by use and effort acquire; "wisdom" is the insight which gradually dawns upon us from thought and experience. In the language of the New Testament, the distinction between the two words is not so clearly marked, but" wisdom" seems to belong more to the human spirit, and "knowledge "to the intellect. The "discourse of wisdom" would be that which sets forth the truth of the gospel persuasively... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:8

For to one is given - In order to show what endowments he refers to, the apostle here particularizes the various gifts which the Holy Spirit imparts in the church.By the Spirit - By the Holy Spirit; by his agency on the mind and heart.The word of wisdom - One he has endowed with wisdom, or has made distinguished for wise, and prudent, and comprehensive views of the scheme of redemption, and with a faculty of clearly explaining it to the apprehension of people. It is not certain that the apostle... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 12:7-9

1 Corinthians 12:7-9. But the manifestation of the Spirit That ability to exercise some spiritual gift, whereby the Spirit manifests his presence with the person possessed of the gift; is given to every man That has it; to profit withal For the profit of the whole body; to edify the different members of the church, and to be only thus used, and not for the purposes of pride and division. For to one is given, by the immediate influence of the Spirit, the word of wisdom Ability to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

12:1-14:40 SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE CHURCHThe variety of gifts (12:1-11)Some unusual spiritual gifts operated in the early church. One of these caused people to speak with strange sounds (commonly referred to as ‘tongues’) that neither they nor the hearers understood unless someone interpreted them. Some at Corinth, still influenced by attitudes from former idolatrous days, were impressed by such things and considered those who so spoke to be spiritually superior. However, the situation got out... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 12:8

by = through. App-104 . 1 Corinthians 12:1 . word . App-121 . another . App-124 . knowledge . App-132 . by = according to. App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:8

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit.Here begins Paul's enumeration of those miraculous gifts with which God endowed certain men in the primitive period of the church's history.The word of wisdom ... "This was the doctrine of the gospel, communicated by inspiration, ... peculiar to the apostles, and enabling them to direct religious faith and practice infallibly."[13] This is mentioned first because it was... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:8

1 Corinthians 12:8. The word of wisdom.— Lord Barrington, Dr. Benson, and many others, understand by the word of wisdom, that extensive plan of Christianity which was revealed to the apostles by the Holy Spirit; and by the word of knowledge, an extraordinaryability to understand and explain the Old Testament, and especially its prophesies. See Miscel. Sacr. essay 1: p. 39 and Benson's Propagation of Christianity, vol. 1: p. 40. &c. where the reader will find a large and minute detail of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 12:8

8-10. Three classes of gifts are distinguished by a distinct Greek word for "another" (a distinct class), marking the three several genera: allo marks the species, hetero the genera (compare Greek, 1 Corinthians 15:39-41). I. Gifts of intellect, namely, (1) wisdom; (2) knowledge. II. Gifts dependent on a special faith, namely, that of miracles ( :-): (1) healings; (2) workings of miracles; (3) prophecy of future events; (4) discerning of spirits, or the divinely given faculty of distinguishing... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 12:4-31

2. The need for varieties of spiritual gifts 12:4-31Paul planned to return to the subject of glossolalia (ch. 14), but first he wanted to talk more generally about spiritual gifts. In the verses that follow he dealt with differences in gifts in the church."Having given the negative and positive criterion of genuine spiritual endowments as manifested in speech, the Apostle goes on to point out the essential oneness of these very varied gifts." [Note: Robertson and Plummer, p. 262.] Diversity,... read more

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