The word of wisdom.— Lord Barrington, Dr. Benson, and many others, understand by the word of wisdom, that extensive plan of Christianity which was revealed to the apostles by the Holy Spirit; and by the word of knowledge, an extraordinaryability to understand and explain the Old Testament, and especially its prophesies. See Miscel. Sacr. essay 1: p. 39 and Benson's Propagation of Christianity, vol. 1: p. 40. &c. where the reader will find a large and minute detail of these spiritual gifts: concerning which we may observe, with a candid expositor, that there are, perhaps, few texts in the New Testament more difficult than some in this and the 14th chapter, relating to the extraordinary gifts thenin the church, which were at that time so well known as to need no explication; and it is a noble instance of the genuine simplicity and modestyof the Apostle, that he did not expatiate on so grand a subject with any unnecessary parade.
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1 Corinthians 12:8
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;