<p>4:11- see on Rom. 9:17.</p><p><i>If anyone speaks-</i> We have just been told that each man / person has been given a gift and is to minister it. Now we read &quot;If anyone speaks... if anyone ministers&quot;. But we are all called to minister. For we have all been given gifts to minister to others. So I do not read this as meaning that one may be called to speak, and another to minister. We are all called to minister, so we are all called to &quot;speak&quot;. But <i>laleo</i> means just 'to speak' and is at times used about preaching; it doesn't refer to platform speaking specifically.</p><p><i>Let him speak as if it were oracles of God</i>- This is the language of the Old Testament prophets. Those men were not to be looked at as icons from afar, on some level of spirituality far above our own. In all our speaking, which is an integral part of ministering to others with the gifts we have been given (:10), we are to do so as if we are each none less than about prophetic work. This doesn't mean that all that comes from our mouths will be Divinely inspired hence &quot;<i>as if it were</i> oracles of God&quot;, but we are to speak and serve / minister with the same gravity and seriousness the prophets had.</p><p><i>If anyone ministers- </i>Verse 10 is clear that we have each been given gifts which we are to minister.</p><p><i>Let him do it as with the ability which God supplies</i><i>, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ</i><i>-</i> The supply of the Spirit is to be used; we are not to seek to serve / minister to others in our own strength. This is so that <i>God</i> and not us will be glorified- as this verse continues to say explicitly.</p><p><i>To whom belongs the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen- </i>A clear allusion to the closing phrases of the Lord's prayer. Those words however are about God, but Peter here applies them to the Lord Jesus; because as he has just written, God is glorified through Christ.</p>