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Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee

Tongues at Corinth: Languages, not Ecstasies!

“Indeed, this is exactly the point Paul made in I Corinthians 14:21-22…. At Pentecost in Acts 2, each of the Jews did — to be sure — hear the Apostles speaking in his own language. This fact necessarily implies, however, that each of these Jews heard a number of other languages alien to him. This God-inspired utterance in Gentile tongues was a signal of the end of the special relationship between God and Israel… Clearer signs of judgment on unbelieving Israel occurred when the Holy Spirit evoked strange languages from Gentiles themselves (Acts 10:45), and from people in places as remote from the holy city as Ephesus and Corinth. Acts 19:6; I Cor. 12:28.

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