Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
(2) That the power conferred, whatever it was, was conferred by the whole body constituting the presbytery - since the apostle says that the “gift” was imparted, not in virtue of any particular power or eminence in anyone individual, but by the “laying on of the hands of the presbytery.”