In each of the five lists of spiritual gifts or of gifted persons which St. Paul places in his Epistles (1Co 12:8-10; 1Co 12:28-30, Rom 12:6-8, Eph 4:11) there are at least two items which are not found in any other list. In 1Co 12:28 we have helps or helpings () and governments or governings (). In 1Co 12:23 gifts of healings are followed by helpings and governings. These two form a pair, and refer to management and direction in things external. Governings is a word which comes from the idea of a , a shipmaster (Act 27:11, Rev 18:17) or pilot (Eze 27:8; Eze 27:27-28), directing the course of a ship. The word occurs nowhere else in the NT, but in the Septuagint we have it in the sense of wise guidance in peace or war (Pro 11:14; Pro 24:6). St. Paul probably uses it of those who superintended the externals of organization. It would therefore denote those who are over the rest, and rule them, the of 1Th 5:12, Rom 12:8 and the of Heb 13:7; Heb 13:17; Heb 13:24, Act 15:22. The governors are directors and organizers, not teachers; still less are they discerners of spirits, as Stanley suggests. They are persons with a gift for management. It is possible that they afterwards developed into a class of officials as elders or bishops, but that stage had not been reached when 1 Cor. was written. See Helps and Church Government.<\/p>\n
A. Plummer.<\/p>\n
(1 Cor. 12:28<\/span>), the powers which fit a man for a place of influence in the church; “the steersman’s art; the art of guiding aright the vessel of church or state.”<\/p>\n Governments In each of the five lists of spiritual gifts or of gifted persons which St. Paul places in his Epistles (1Co 12:8-10; 1Co 12:28-30, Rom 12:6-8, Eph 4:11) there are at least two items which are not found in any other list. In 1Co 12:28 we have helps or helpings () and governments or … Continue reading “Governments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"