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WHEREFORE it is good and profitable for each one to endeavour with all
his might and main to attain perfection in the work that has been begun,
according to the line which he has chosen as the grace which he has
received; and while he praises and admires the virtues of others, not to
swerve from his own line which he has once for all chosen, as he knows
that, as the Apostle says, the body of the Church indeed is one, but the
members many, and that it has "gifts differing according to the grace which
is given us, whether prophecy, according to the proportion of the faith,
whether ministry, in ministering, or he that teacheth, in doctrine, or he
that exhorteth in exhortation, he that giveth, in simplicity, he that
ruleth, with carefulness, he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness." For
no members can claim the offices of other members, because the eyes cannot
perform the duties of the hands, nor the nostrils of the ears. And so not
all are Apostles, not all prophets, not all doctors, not all have the gifts
of healing, not all speak with tongues, not all interpret.
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