Verse 11
11. Now follows a pair of specimens of the gifts just mentioned.
If… speak As a teacher, preacher, or exhorter.
Oracles of God As communications of God’s doctrines, and not the speaker’s own. In Romans 3:2 the phrase means God’s revelations in the Holy Scriptures, and, for us, it has here the same practical import.
Minister The reference is not to the deacon distributing church alms, but to any service which one brother might render to another out of his own means.
The ability which God giveth This, no more and no less, is the rule for the Church of all ages, and the measure of every man’s duty in the kingdom of Christ. Romans 12:6-8. The apostle, perhaps, had in mind our Lord’s parable of the talents. Matthew 25:14-30.
God… glorified As he will be by such an entire consecration and employment by every man of his gift in doing all possible good to the souls and bodies of men.
To whom Christ; for to him as Mediator belongs the glory of all good gifts bestowed and of their right use, and the power that empowers for doing good.
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