take of the spirit] By the spirit is meant the gifts of the spirit; 1 Corinthians 14:32. & vers. 25. of this Chapter; and taking of the same spirit, is not meant taking away from one to give to another, but a communication of the same graces, and of the spirit in Moses, or his spirituall gifts; whereby he had not the lesse; as a candle which lighteth another hath not the lesse either heat, or light, then it had before. upon them] He will first put gifts upon them, before he put them upon an office; yet these seventie Elders afterwards were a setled councell, for the Government of the people in the Land of Canaan, and were called the Sanhedrim, or Synedrion; yet they that suceeded, did not succeed them in gifts; nor did these first seventie alwayes enjoy them.