is greatest among you] In gifts, authoritie, or other qualities: meaning, that such must carry themselves without pride, ambition, violence, oppression, and contempt of others; and with that humilitie and moderation, which would become the meanest in the Church; not that he did appoint equalitie of Ministers, for he oppointed orders in the Church, which cannot be without the relations of inferiour and superiour. Onely he forbiddeth tyranny and domineering. See Romans 12:8. 1 Corinthians 12:28. 1 Timothy 5:17. Hebrews 13:17. 24.