Verse 2: 'According to your knowledge I also know, nor am I inferior to you.' 32. Having received this gift, he was not puffed up. — By which words indeed it became known of how great humility he was, who denies himself inferior to those whose life he had far transcended by living in holiness. For he affirms that he knows even according to their knowledge, he who, by knowing heavenly things, passed beyond their earthly thoughts also through the spirit of prophecy. There follows: