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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
This whole place is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place. And why do they not happen now? Why look now, the cause too of the obscurity hath produced us again another question: namely, why did they then happen, and now do so no more? This however let us defer to another time, but for the present let us state what things were occurring then. Well: what did happen then? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, about the gifts of the Spirit. The matter is as follows. Those who believed and were baptized in the beginning all received the Spirit. Since He was invisible, an outward proof of His power was given; and those who received Him either spoke in various tongues, or prophesied, or worked miracles. Among the Corinthians, these gifts caused disturbances: those who received more were puffed up, and those who received less envied them. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
After discussing the three sacraments of Baptism, Matrimony and the Eucharist, the Apostle begins to talk about things pertaining to the reality signified in the sacraments. But this is twofold: one is signified and contained, namely, grace, which is conferred at once by the sacrament; the other is signified but not contained, namely, the glory of the resurrection, which is expected at the end. First, therefore, he deals with the gifts of graces; secondly, with the glory of the resurrection (c. 15). …
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