XXII.
And again, speaking also of the children of Israel
as baptized in the cloud and in the sea, he says: “And they
all drank of the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that
spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was
Christ.”360
And again he says: “Wherefore I give you
to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of
God calleth
Jesus
accursed: and that no man can say that
Jesus is the
Lord, but by
the Holy
Ghost. Now there are diversities of
gifts, but the same
Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the
same
Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the
same
God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the
Spirit is given to every man to
profit withal. For to one is
given by the Spirit the word of
wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit; to another
faith by the same Spirit; to
another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working
of
miracles; to another
prophecy; to another
discerning of spirits; to
another divers kinds of
tongues; to another the interpretation of
tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit,
dividing to every man severally as He will. For as the body is
one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being
many, are one body; so also is
Christ. For by one Spirit are we
all
baptized into one body.”
361
And again he says: “For
if he who comes preaches another Christ whom we have not preached, or
ye receive another spirit that ye have received not, or another gospel
which ye have not obtained, ye will rightly be kept
back.”
362
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