Talents of the Spirit, except Faith, and that not in the intenser sense of the charismata.[1]
Unfortunately the words of S. Paul were not well rendered in the Authorized Version, and the Revisers, after their wont, did singularly little to improve matters. The meaning will perhaps be best brought out in a table on the next page. We will give Dr. Moff at the central position, which is well deserved, only venturing on two additional epithets to his 'Good Temper' and 'Generosity', which, excellent as they are, seem to need a little strengthening. Weymouth's renderings suffer, like the Authorized Version, from indistinctness—'Good Faith' is his best. Lightfoot is helpful; though I cannot think that his classification into three general habits of mind, three qualities affecting intercourse with neighbours, and three general principles of a Christian's conduct, quite exhausts the possibilities.
In the rendering of the first three, it will be noticed, all our translators are agreed.
It is interesting to notice how William James, approaching the subject of Saintliness from a psychological point of view, arrives at a definition which closely corresponds with S. Paul's connotation, although he clearly has not noticed the resemblance.
There is, he says,[2] 'a certain composite photograph of universal saintliness, the same in all religions, of
- ↑ See p. 61.
- ↑ Varieties of Religious Experience, 1904, pp. 271-4.
