Question: Would you say the “gifts” (in Ephesians at least) are certain characteristics of Christ, to be displayed here on earth? X. Y. Z.
Answer: Certainly, but from Him ascended on high, as the citation from Psa. 68 shows. This falls in with the character of the Epistle, not so much operations of the Spirit’s power in the way of signs to man, as the gifts to the church of Christ’s love who is in the heavenly places.