The Enarrations, or Expositions, on the Psalms

^22. In the next place, turning his address to the Lord Himself, “You have gone up,” he says, “on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts in men”. Of this the Apostle thus makes mention, thus expounds in speaking of the Lord Christ: “But unto each one of us,” he says, “is given grace after the measure of the giving of Christ: for which cause he says, He has gone up on high, He has led captive captivity, He has given gifts to men.”...And let it not move us that the Apostle making mention of that same testimony says not, “You have received gifts in men;” but, “He has given gifts unto men.” For he with Apostolic authority has spoken thus according to the faith that the Son is God with the Father. For in respect of this He has given gifts to men, sending to them the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son. But forasmuch as the self-same Christ is understood in His Body which is the Church, wherefore also His members are His saints and believers, whence to them is said, “But you are the Body of Christ, and the members,” doubtless He has Himself also received gifts in men. Now Christ has gone up on high, and sits at the right hand of the Father: but unless He were here also on the earth, He would not thence have cried, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” When the Same says Himself, “Inasmuch as to one of My least you have done it, to Me you have done it:” why do we doubt that He receives in His members, the gifts which the members of Him receive?