Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Do you see his aim every where, how he looks to one thing continually and in all cases, the general utility, the profiting the Church; laying this down as a kind of rule? And he did not say, that you may obtain the gifts but, that you may abound, i.e., that you may even possess them in great plenitude. Thus, so far am I from wishing you not to possess them, that I even wish you to abound in them, only so that you handle them with a view to the common advantage. And how is this to be done?
