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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Romans 12:7 - 12:7
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Or ministry, let us wait on - “be occupied with.”
our ministering - The word here used imports any kind of service, from the dispensing of the word of life (Act 6:4) to the administering of the temporal affairs of the Church (Act 6:1-3). The latter seems intended here, being distinguished from “prophesying,” “teaching,” and “exhorting.”
or he that teacheth - Teachers are expressly distinguished from prophets, and put after them, as exercising a lower function (Act 13:1; 1Co 12:28, 1Co 12:29). Probably it consisted mainly in opening up the evangelical bearings of Old Testament Scripture; and it was in this department apparently that Apollos showed his power and eloquence (Act 18:24).