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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
X - ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Summary
Having thus examined the chief passages of Ephesians, which now for the first time in St Paul's extant Epistles clearly set forth the conception of a single universal Ecclesia, we must return to the passages of various dates in which he expounds his doctrine of χαρίσματα, and exemplifies it by various functions within the Ecclesia. The three passages are 1 Cor. xii. 4—11 and 28—31; Rom. xii. 6—8; Eph. iv. 7—12.
The meaning of the terms
Χάρισµα comes of course from χαρίζομαι; it means anything given of free bounty, not of debt, contract, or right. It is thus obviously used in Philo, and as obviously in Rom. v. 15, vi. 23 (the gift of God is eternal life); and less obviously but with I believe essentially the same force in the other passages of St Paul, as also in the only other New Testament place, 1 Pet. iv. 10. In these instances it is used to designate either what we call ‘natural advantages’ independent of any human process of acquisition, or advantages freshly received in the course of Providence; both alike being regarded as so many various free gifts from the Lord of men, and as designed by Him to be distinctive qualifications for rendering distinctive services to men or to communities of men. In this sense they are Divine gifts both to the individual men in whom so to speak they are located, and to the society for whose benefit they are ordained.
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- The Christian EcclesiaA Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and Four Sermons, pp. 153 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1897