Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 12:6

6. Having then gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us , whether prophesy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith :

Or seeing we have different gifts and offices, according as the grace of God hath bestowed them upon us, let us use them Aright. This is added to prevent Pride and Envy: None should be proud of that he hath himself, or envy what another hath, seeing all is of Grace.

These words, Let us Prophesy, are not in the Text; but they are put in by our Translators, to fill up the Sence. There is an Ellipsis in the Words, and something must be inserted. Some make the Supply from the last words in the foregoing Verse, Let us be one anothers Members in Prophesying, Teaching, Exhorting, &c. Others think, it ought to be supplyed out of ver. 3. q. d. Whether we have Prophesy, let us be wise unto sobriety in Prophesying; and so in all the rest that follow: In all the several gifts and offices, he sheweth how they should behave themselves. The Greek Scholiast, will have supply'd in them all (let us persevere.) By Prophesying, in this place, you may understand an extraordinary Gift, that some had in Understanding divine Mysteries, and Old-Testament Prophesies, with a wonderful Dexterity in applying the same; to which was joyned, sometimes the Revelation of Secret, and Future things, vid. Act. 11.27. and 21.9.

i. e. They that have this gift of Prophesying, must exercise it according to the measure of Knowledge, in heavenly mysteries, that God hath given them: Or else, in their Prophesying, they must have regard to the Articles of Christian Faith, and see that they regulate themselves according thereunto. Some think, he calls the Holy Scripture in general, an Analogy or Proportion of faith; by these, the false Prophets of Old, were discerned, if they delivered any thing contrary thereunto (Deut. 13.1. &c.) Others think, he speaks of certain Principles, or Heads of Christian Religion (vid. Heb. 6.1.) from which the Prophets and others, were not to swerve; Yea, some think, he aimes at the Symbol and Creed, called the Apostles; which, from the Beginning, was called the Analogy of Faith.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 12.4. 1 Pet. 4.10, 11.; 1 Cor. 12.1[illegible: 1 letter], 28. & 13.2. & 14.1, 29, 31.