Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
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Gill's Exposition
Are all apostles?.... No some are prophets, as distinct from apostles; and some are teachers, as distinct from them both, and some are neither:
are all prophets? no; some are apostles, above them,…
Are all apostles? ... - These questions imply, with strong emphasis, that it could not be, and ought not to be, that there should be perfect equality of endowment. It was not a matter of fact that all…
Adam Clarke
Are all apostles, etc. - That is: All are not apostles, all are not prophets, etc.; God has distributed his various gifts among various persons, each of whom is necessary for the complete edification…
I. Here the apostle sums up the argument, and applies this similitude to the church of Christ, concerning which observe,
1. The relation wherein Christians stand to Christ and one another. The church,…
Cambridge Bible
Are all apostles? The common priesthood of every Christian (1Pe 2:5; 1Pe 2:9) no more precludes the existence of special offices of authority in the Christian Church than the common priesthood of the…