{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd301_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd301_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd301_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/ebd/ebd301.htm","summary":"Proportion of Faith (Rom 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, \"according to the proportion of faith.\" The meaning is, that the utterances of the \"prophet\" were not to fluctuate according to his own impulses or independent thoughts, but were to be adjusted to the truth revealed to him as a believer, i.e., were to be accordance with it. In post-Reformation times this phrase was used as meaning that all Scripture was to be interpreted with\u2026","tags":["Biblical Names and Places","Biblical Reference","Easton's Bible Dictionary"],"text":null,"title":"Easton's Bible Dictionary","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":2173}