Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
Or ministry [let us wait] on (or 'be occupied with') our ministering х diakonia (G1248)] The familiar Or ministry [let us wait] on (or 'be occupied with') our ministering, х diakonia (G1248)]. The familiar word here used imports any kind of service from the dispensing of the word of life (Acts 6:4) to the administering of the temporal affairs of the Church (Acts 6:1-3). The latter seems intended here, being distinguished from 'prophesying,' 'teaching,' and 'exhorting.'
He that teacheth. Teachers are expressly distinguished in the New Testament from prophets, and put after them, as exercising a lower function (Acts 13:1; 1 Corinthians 12:28-29). 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 (Acts 17:24).