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Hath set (ἔθετο)
See on 1Co 12:18. The middle voice implies for His own use.
Miracles
Note the change from endowed persons to abstract gifts, and compare the reverse order, Rom 12:6-8.
Helps (ἀντιλήμψεις)
Rendered to the poor and sick as by the deacons. See on hath holpen, Luk 1:54.
Governments (κυβερνήσεις)
Only here in the New Testament. From κυβερνάω to steer. The kindred κυβερνήτης shipmaster or steersman, occurs Act 27:11; Rev 18:17. Referring probably to administrators of church government, as presbyters. The marginal wise counsels (Rev.) is based on Septuagint usage, as Pro 1:5; Pro 20:21. Compare Pro 11:14; Pro 24:6. Ignatius, in his letter to Polycarp says: “The occasion demands thee, as pilots (κυβερνῆται) the winds.” The reading is disputed, but the sense seems to be that the crisis demands Polycarp as a pilot. Lightfoot says that this is the earliest example of a simile which was afterward used largely by christian writers - the comparison of the Church to a ship. Hippolytus represents the mast as the cross; the two rudders the two covenants; the undergirding ropes the love of Christ. The ship is one of the ornaments which Clement of Alexandria allows a Christian to wear (“Apostolic Fathers,” Part II., Ignatius to Polycarp, 2).