Diversities of operations - · Miraculous influences exerted on others; such as the expulsion of demons, inflicting extraordinary punishments, as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira, Elymas the sorcerer, etc., the healing of different diseases, raising the dead, etc.: all these proceeded from God the Father, as the fountain of all goodness and power, and the immediate dispenser of every good and perfect gift.

In the three preceding verses we find more than an indirect reference to the doctrine of the sacred Trinity.

Gifts are attributed to the Holy Spirit, I Corinthians 12:4.

Administrations to the Lord Jesus, I Corinthians 12:5.

Operations to God the Father, I Corinthians 12:6.

He who may think this fanciful must account for the very evident distinctions here in some more satisfactory way.

Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Corinthians 12:6:

1 Corinthians 12:6
1 Corinthians 12:8
1 Corinthians 12:8
Ephesians 4:11
1 John 4:1

 

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