1 Corinthians 12:11 (WEB)
But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
Fathers and councils · 38
Tertullian
“This was her vision, and for her witness there was God; and the apostle most assuredly foretold that there were to be “spiritual gifts” in the church.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 1–11. [A key to our author’s
Read the whole comment“…in the house of your mother, together with your brethren, ask from the Father, ask from the Lord, that His own specialties of grace and distributions of gifts may be supplied you.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 4–12.
Read the whole comment“Now hear how he declared that by Christ Himself, when returned to heaven, these spiritual gifts were to be sent: “He ascended up on high,” that is, into heaven; “He led captivity captive,” meaning death or slavery of man; “He gave gifts to the sons of men,” that is, the gratuities, which we call charismata.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 4–11; Eph. iv. 8, and Ps. lxviii. 18.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…the power of control), even so the apostle ascribes independent authority to the dignity of the Spirit, when he affirms that He works all in all as He wills.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…aught else that is enumerated in the lists of saving gifts, “all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will,” we therefore do not reject the statement of Eunomius when he says that the Spirit “co-operates with the faithful for understanding and contemplation of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…Son peculiarly, or of the Holy Spirit separately, but while, as the Apostle says, the one and the selfsame Spirit divides His good gifts to every man severally, the motion of good proceeding from the Spirit is not without beginning;—we find that the power which we conceive as preceding this motion, which is the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…the gifts, while the Spirit bestows them at His pleasure: “For all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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Jerome
“Whence the Apostle says, “The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 21, 29, 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Thus also the Holy Ghost, being one, and of one nature, and indivisible, divides to each His grace, according as He will: and as the dry tree, after partaking of water, puts forth shoots, so also the soul in sin, when it has been through repentance made worthy of the Holy Ghost, brings forth clusters of righteousness.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“For it is one and the Self-same Spirit who divides His gifts to every man severally as He will, Himself the while remaining undivided.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X II.1Conference II
“Then after the complete catalogue of spiritual gifts he subjoins: “But all these worketh one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 8–11.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.18Conference XIII
“…riches to the prudent, nor grace to the learned,” but that “all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.”” — editor's note: Eccl. ix. 11 (LXX.); 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For all these worketh the one and self-same Spirit, dividing to every man his own as He willeth; and making stars appear manifestly, to profit withal.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 8–11.
Read the whole comment““But all these things worketh one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one his own gifts, as He willeth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“And in us “all things one and the same Spirit doth work, dividing severally to every one as He willeth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…since the Holy Spirit worketh conjointly with the Father and the Son: whence saith the Apostle, “But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit:” he said, “one and the self-same;” lest as many spirits as works might be imagined, not that the Spirit worketh without the Father and the Son.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“But as to the reason why the Holy Spirit, who divideth to every man severally as He will, and who therefore undoubtedly, with a view to the establishing of their books on so distinguished an eminence of authority, also governs and rules the minds of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Who distributeth his own proper gifts unto each as He will?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11
Read the whole comment“…to perceive and to judge of these things none be able, but he which hath that gift through God’s Spirit, “dividing unto every man severally as He will:” the same John, methinks, would discourse to me of all these matters, as I should wish; that either by his teaching I might learn, and what I should be told…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11
Read the whole comment“…dividing to every man severally as He will;” certainly as God—for who can work such great things but God?—but “it is the same God which worketh all in all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 6–11
Read the whole comment“For elsewhere also, when he had mentioned many gifts, “All these,” he says, “worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to each severally as He will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11
Read the whole comment“And as to what the Apostle says, “But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will;” it might be feared, lest one imagine that the Father and the Son do not work them: whereas amongst these works he has expressly mentioned both the “gifts of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Do all interpret?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 8–30.
Read the whole comment“Are they not there called the seven Spirits of God, while there is only one and the same Spirit dividing to every one severally as He will?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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Origen
““But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every one severally as He will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—Yes, for so have I learnt from the Apostolic Scripture “There are diversities of gifts but the same spirit,” and again “All these things worketh that one and the selfsame spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will,” and again “Having the same Spirit of the Faith.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11
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Ambrose of Milan
“The Apostle also saith that “all is the work of one and the same Spirit, distributing to each according to His will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment““There is also One Holy Spirit,” as the same Apostle hath said.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“Therefore, if He works all these things, for one and the same Spirit worketh all, how is He not God Who has all things which God has?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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John Chrysostom
“And how is that which is everywhere present sent by Another, that which “divideth to every man severally as He will” ( 1 Cor. xii. 11 ), and which saith with authority, “Separate Me Paul and Barnabas”? ( Acts xiii. 2.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“We say that every good thing, which by God’s providence befalls us, is an operation, of the Grace which worketh in us all things, as the apostle says, “But all these worketh that one and the self same Spirit dividing to every man severally as he will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment““But all these,” it is said, “worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
Read the whole comment“For there is not even one single gift which reaches creation without the Holy Ghost; when not even a single word can be spoken in defence of Christ except by them that are aided by the Spirit, as we have learnt in the Gospels from our Lord and Saviour.” — editor's note: cf. Matt. xxviii. 19; 1 Cor. xii. 11; Rom. viii. 11; 1 Pet. i. 2.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“But all these worketh the One and same Spirit.” — editor's note: Ib. 4–11.
Read the whole comment“But he sums up these diversities of gifts thus: Now all these things worketh one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one as He will.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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Aphrahat
“Moreover the blessed apostle also said:—God divided of the Spirit of Christ and sent it into the Prophets.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xii. 11, 28, and Rom. xii. 36.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: and all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, distributing to each one according as He wills.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 7–11.
Read the whole comment“For were we to say that the apostles were at once prophets and righteous, we should say well, “since one and the self-same Holy Spirit works in all.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 11.
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Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Letters Letter 38.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 38.
Cited together in Letters Letter 38.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in Conferences I–X II.1.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.18.
Cited together in Letters Letter 38.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 21.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.18.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.18.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.6.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.22.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 38.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.22.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.22.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.
Cited together in On 'Not Three Gods'.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.19.