spiritual gifts given to each believer. Murray shows (1968:118–19) how this relates to “distinct endowments distributed among the members of the Christian community,” called “the measure of faith in the restricted sense of the faith that is suited to the exercise of this gift.” This makes best sense of the whole context: different members in the church having different gifts (vv. 4–6) provides a good parallel with the measure of faith sufficient for each to discover his or her gift and therefore
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