inspiration.1 According to this view, Paul is warning the prophets against the temptation to add something of their own devising,2 the temptation, when they come to the limit of their inspiration, to go on speaking.3 According to others,4 ἡ πίστις is to be understood in the sense of ‘the faith’, i.e. the body of truth believed, and κατὰ τὴν ἀναλογίαν as meaning ‘according to the standard’, ‘in agreement (with)’, ‘in accordance (with)’: the prophet is to make sure that his message does not in
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