94 JUAN MANUEL GRANADOS ROJAS relationship between them: different ministries of the Word were given by Christ according to the preparation of the saints, that is, ministries for the Word come into being in proportion to the training of the community members for this service. V. Chrysostom’s reading of Eph 4,11-12 Before concluding it is important to analyze briefly an argument that has weighed heavily in the history of the interpretation. It is an argument from authority. Based on the supposition that Chrysostom, a Greek native speaker, could have understood better the text of Ephesians, some authors interpret the prepositional phrases in Eph 4,12 as parallel to one another 47. However, this argument needs a close examination. Chrysostom quotes Eph 4,12 four times in his 11th homily on Ephe- sians 48. In the first (62.81.20), he explains the expression “according to the measure of Christ’s gift”; there is not any superiority in any spiritual gift because all of them come from the same source. These gifts are appointed not for honoring one above another, but for the work of the church. Here his explanation points to a relationship of agreement. In the second quotation (62.82.13-20) the phrase is interpreted by means of 1 Cor 3,6-8 again to underline the absence of subordination or precedence among the gifts. The third quotation (62.82.60-83.2) does not support the reading of the three phrases as parallel to one another, as Page suggests, but rather emphasizes the distribution of the gifts: “Each one edifies, each one perfects, each one ministers” 49. Each one fully accomplishes the function of the others. The fourth reference reads prov ton katar- ù ù tismon twn ag¥wn eıv ergon diakonıav as one phrase and stresses the ù ˜ Ωı ߶ ¥ function of love in building up the church and keeping the unity of the saints (62.85.17-20) 50. The texts cited above suggest that Chrysostom does not posit the prepositional phrases as parallel to one another. Appealing to a single J-N. ALETTI, “La eclesiología de las llamadas deuteropaulinas. Pre- 47 guntas y respuestas”, EstBib 68 (2010) 54-56; see also E. DE LOS SANTOS GARCÍA, La novedad de la metáfora kephale-soma en la Carta a los Efesios (Tesi Gregoriana. Serie Teologia 59; Roma 2000) 173-255. PAGE, “Whose Ministry?”, 45. See also ABBOTT, Ephesians, 119. 48 Chrysostom usually notices Greek nuances or relevant changes in the 49 Greek text. See for example his remark about Ps 68,18 (Chrysostom, ad Ephe- sios, 62.81.40-47) or the difference between apokatallassw and katal- ß ¥ lassw in Eph 2,16 (Chrysostom, ad Ephesios, 62.40.41-42). ¥ Orav to ajıwma; ™Ekastov oıkodome˜ ekastov katartızei, ˜ ù ߥ ß ı™ ¥ 50 ∞ ekastov diakoneı (Chrysostom, ad Ephesios, 62.83.1-2). ™ ˜