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Often appears with: word of knowledge · tongues and interpretation · speech-based gifts · scripture and its interpretation · religious persecution and toleration · prophecy and revelation · priesthood and religious office · prayer and worship · gratuitous grace gifts · gratuitous grace · gratitude and ingratitude
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Aquinas claims gratuitous grace is rightly divided by Paul because it equips someone to instruct others in divine matters: it includes wisdom, knowledge, healing, miracles, prophecy, discerning spirits, tongues, and interpretation.
and hence can never be called anything but prevenient. But grace signifies a temporal effect, which can precede and follow another; and thus grace may be both prevenient and subsequent. Reply Obj. 2: The division into prevenient and subsequent grace does not divide grace in its essence, but only in its effects, as was already said of operating and cooperating grace. For subsequent grace, inasmuch as it pertains to g…
Aquinas turns to the “word of wisdom and the word of knowledge,” introducing the questions whether any gratuitous grace attaches to words and to whom such grace is fitting.
considered in itself. Secondly, because the gift of prophecy regards the knowledge of things, which is more excellent than the knowledge of words, to which the gift of tongues pertains. Thirdly, because the gift of prophecy is more profitable. The Apostle proves this in three ways (1 Cor. 14); first, because prophecy is more profitable to the edification of the Church, for which purpose he that speaketh in tongues p…