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But vnto euery one of vs is giuen grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Wherefore he saith: When he ascended vp on high, he led captiuitie captiue, and gaue gifts vnto men.

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that hee also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

He that descended, is the same also that ascended vp far aboue all heauens, that he might fill all things.)

And he gaue some, Apostles: and some, Prophets: and some, Euangelists: and some, Pastors, and teachers:

For the perfecting of the Saints, for the worke of the ministerie, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Till we all come in the vnitie of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Sonne of God, vnto a perfect man, vnto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ: