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— r\ hxXrifflu, the Church ) seeking [ver. 12] edification ; may receive it in consonance with this [viz. with seeking~\.
6. ’'H ev dvrozaXir^e/, 5} ev yvwtfs/, $ ev <xpo(pyire/cpy r\ ev dida%ri, either in revelation , or in knowledge , or in prophecy , or in doctrine ) Here are four kinds of prophecy broadly so called ; the two former refer to the person himself, who rejoices in the gift ; the two latter at the same time show more of a leaning towards the hearers.1 On the difference of prophecy (which corresponds to revelation ) and of knowledge (with which doctnne agrees) see xii. 8, 10 : and on the whole subject, below at ver. 26, etc. Prophecy has relation to particular points, formerly not well understood, to mysteries to be known finally [and only] by revelation. Doctrine and knowledge are brought from the com- mon storehouse of believers, and refer to things obvious in the matter of salvation.
7. A vXog — xitiupa, a pipe — a harp) Two of the chief musical
instruments ; not only the pipe, which is, as it were, animated by the breath of the piper, but also the harp. — ro?g <pQ6yyo/gy in the sounds) The ablative case comp. ver. 9. — vug yvwtr^tfs/ra/,
how shall it he known) how shall pipe be distinguished from pipe, and harp from harp ? There is one and then another sound of one and the same instrument, when it is directed to different things.
8. Tap , for) This serves the purpose of a gradation ; for the higher confirms the lower step. — adqXov, uncertain) One sound of a single trumpet summons soldiers to one class of duties, another sound to another class of duties.
9. 1 T/xg/j, you) who have life [opp. to things without life]; comp. ver. 7. — did, by) i.e. then, when you speak in an un- known tongue.
10. Totfaura, si rv^oi) si rvygn (the Latin, verhi gratia , for example ; comp. xv. 37) makes roauZru have the force of a cer- tain number. If men could ever have counted the number of voices, Paul would have set down the number here. — oud'ev u<puw, none without signification) each one of them has its own power [ meaning , ver. 11], dvva/x/v.
11. Bupfiupog, a barbarian) See Acts xxviii. 2, Note.
1 What. Ernesti approves in Moldenhauer evidently agrees with these views. — Bibl. Theol., T. viii., p. 673.— E. B.
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