1 Corinthians 12:8

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For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

In other words, he is given knowledge not by book learning but by the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Wisdom refers to the knowledge of divine things, and knowledge to human science.

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Clement Of Rome

AD 99

But if thou hast received "the word of knowledge, or the word of instruction, or of prophecy"

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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637

To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom. The power of explaining Wisdom of Solomon , viz, the deepest mysteries of the Trinity, of the Incarnation, of predestination, &c. Cf. chap. xiii. To another the word of knowledge. The power of explaining the things pertaining to life and morals. S. Augustine distinguishes thus between wisdom and knowledge (de Trin. lib. xii. c14,15), and the Apostle so takes knowledge in chap. viii. Others understand by knowledge the power of explaining the things of faith by examples, comparisons, and human and philosophical reasonings.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Word of wisdom, which differs from that of knowledge, inasmuch as wisdom is a more eminent and sublime knowledge. These are numbered among the gifts of the Holy Spirit. (Isaias, chap. xi.) To another faith, by which, says St. Chrysostom, is not here meant a belief of revealed truths, but an humble confidence of working miracles, grounded on faith, and on the power and goodness of God. The same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will; by which words, they that valued themselves on the gifts of prophesying, and speaking tongues, are put in mind, that all these were purely the gifts of God, to whom alone the honour is due. (Witham)

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Severian of Gabala

AD 425

The utterance of wisdom means understanding what God has said through the prophets and evangelists and communicating this to those who are listening. The utterance of knowledge is the revelation of things which have been forgotten, which someone learns for the first time and then shares with others. .

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

That it is better for you to remain in ignorance, lest you should come to know what you ought not, because you have acquired the knowledge of what you ought to know. ""To another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues; "this will be "the spirit of knowledge."

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The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375

Let not, therefore, any one that works signs and wonders judge any one of the faithful who is not vouchsafed the same: for the gifts of God which are bestowed by Him through Christ are various; and one man receives one gift, and another another. For perhaps one has the word of wisdom, and another the word of knowledge;

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