Basil of Caesarea — On the Holy Spirit (distribution of gifts / 1 Cor 12)
Is the ordering of the church not clearly and without contradiction worked through the Spirit? For he himself, it says, gave to the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then powers, then gifts of healings, helps, governances, kinds of tongues. For this is the order arranged according to the division of the gifts from the Spirit.
…and there are distributions of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are distributions of ministries, but the same Lord; and there are distributions of workings, but the same God who works all things in all. But all these, it says, the one and the same Spirit works, distributing to each one individually as he wills.
Greek
Ἐκκλησίας διακόσμησις οὐχὶ σαφῶς καὶ ἀναντιρρήτως διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐνεργεῖται; Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἔδωκε, φησί, τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ πρῶτον ἀποστόλους, δεύτερον προφήτας, τρίτον διδασκάλους, ἔπειτα δυνάμεις, ἔπειτα χαρίσματα ἰαμάτων, ἀντιλήψεις, κυβερνήσεις, γένη γλωσσῶν. Αὕτη γὰρ ἡ τάξις κατὰ τὴν διαίρεσιν τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος δωρεῶν διατέτακται.
Διαιρέσεις γάρ, φησί, χαρισμάτων εἰσί, τὸ δὲ αὐτὸ Πνεῦμα· καὶ διαιρέσεις διακονιῶν εἰσιν, ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Κύριος· καὶ διαιρέσεις ἐνεργημάτων εἰσίν, ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Θεός, ὁ ἐνεργῶν τὰ πάντα ἐν πᾶσι. Ταῦτα δὲ πάντα, φησίν, ἐνεργεῖ τὸ ἓν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ Πνεῦμα, διαιροῦν ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ καθὼς βούλεται.