ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 12 v3

THE GIFT OF DISCERNMENT. ORIGEN: There are so many different kinds of spirit that without the gift of discernment, who can know which is which? COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4.47.2-3.

RIGHTLY PRAISING GOD. BASIL: If two yardsticks are compared with each other, their straightness is in agreement. But if a distorted piece of wood is compared with a ruler, the crooked one will be at variance with the straight. Since, therefore, the praise of God is righteous, there is need of a righteous heart, in order that the praise may be fitting and adapted to it. “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except in the Holy Spirit.” So how can one offer due praise if one does not have the right spirit in one’s heart? HOMILY 15.1 ON PSALM 32.

EXCEPT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMBROSE: If we cannot name the Lord Jesus without the Spirit, surely we cannot proclaim him without the Spirit. THE HOLY SPIRIT 1.11.124.

THE SPEAKER OF TRUTH. AMBROSIASTER: Any truth spoken by anyone is spoken by the Holy Spirit. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT? CHRYSOSTOM: If no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Spirit, what can we say about those who do name his name but do not have the Spirit? Here we have to understand that Paul was not talking about catechumens who had not yet been baptized but about believers and unbelievers. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 29.3.

WHETHER LEGION CONFESSED JESUS AS LORD. SEVERIAN OF GABALA: When the demoniac Legion acknowledged Jesus as Lord, he did not do so in a believing sense, but he merely confessed his knowledge of the lordship and rule of Christ over all things. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

THE SPIRIT PROCLAIMS HIS LORDSHIP. THEODORET OF CYR: There is no disharmony between the teaching of the only begotten Son and that of the Holy Spirit. In the Gospels, Christ the Lord taught us how great the Holy Spirit is, and the Spirit has proclaimed his lordship. No one who is truly moved by the Spirit can say that Christ is not divine. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 242.