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suitable times appear; and He will let everything happen 

 as He has purposed it heretofore. Now if God should 

 have endowed any one with such great insight and wis- 

 dom that he could know all the thoughts of God and 

 should report them as if God had disclosed them in 

 word or speech, he would by no means be telling false- 

 hoods; for all that God has purposed has been told him 

 in his thoughts, whether his lips have spoken about 

 them or not. The apostle Paul tells us that God has 

 given men his Holy Spirit with a definite office and ac- 

 tivity: some receive a spirit of prophecy, some a spirit 

 of knowledge and wisdom, some a spirit of eloquence, 

 some a spirit of understanding, and some a spirit of 

 skill; * some have these gifts in large measure, others 

 in less; some enjoy one of these gifts, others two, still 

 others three, while some have all, each one as God wills 

 to endow him. 



But those who, like King David, have received both 

 the spirit of understanding and of eloquence, have ven- 

 tured to compose speeches and write books in order that 

 the speeches shall not perish. In some places David has 

 told of God's purposes, in other places of His deeds, 

 and in still other places he has reported His words; and 

 those who in times past have written glosses to the 

 psalms which David composed have had more to say 

 about what was in David's mind than about the words 

 that he wrote. For to every word they have added long 

 comments of what David had in thought when he spoke 

 this word; and in these comments they point out the 

 meaning which he had in his thoughts at every word 



* I Corinthians, xii, 4-10. 



