Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 14:32

The maxim πνεύματα προφητῶν προφήταις ὑποτάσσεται, is coupled by καὶ to 1 Corinthians 14:31 under the regimen of γάρ; it gives the subjective, as 1 Corinthians 14:31 the main objective, reason why the prophets should submit to regulation. “How can I prophesy to order ?” one of them might ask; “how restrain the Spirit's course in me?” The Ap. replies: “(for) also the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets”; this Divine gift is put under the control and responsibility of the possessor's will, that it may be exercised with discretion and brotherly love, for its appointed ends. An unruly prophet is therefore no genuine prophet; he lacks one of the necessary marks of the Holy Spirit's indwelling (see 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 14:37). This kind of subjection could hardly be ascribed to the ecstatic Glossolalia. On the pl [2164] πνεύματα, signifying manifold forms or distributions (1 Corinthians 12:4; 1 Corinthians 12:11) of the Spirit's power, see note on 1 Corinthians 12:10. ὑποτάσσεται is the pr [2165] of a general truth: “a Gnomic Present” (Bn [2166], § 12); cf. 1 Corinthians 3:13; 2 Corinthians 9:7.

[2164] plural.

[2165] present tense.

[2166] E. Burton's Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in the N.T. (1894).

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