Both the
translators of the Authorized Version and the Revised
Version, and even the translators of the American Revision, seem to
have lost sight of the context, for while they spell “Spirit” in the
third verse with a capital, in the sixth verse, in all three versions it
is spelled with a small “s.”
The ministry
of many an orthodox preacher and teacher is a
ministry of death. It is true that the Word of the Gospel is preached
but it is preached with enticing words of man's wisdom and not in
the demonstration of the Spirit and of power (1 Cor. ii. 4). The
Gospel comes in word only and not in power and in the Holy Spirit
(1 Thess. i. 5).