The Works of

Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee

Tongues at Corinth: Languages, not Ecstasies!

If the ‘un-learn-ed’ visitor would not [and could not] understand the various forein languages spoken by the foreign members of the congregation, it is obvious that the ‘learned’ [could and] would! This implies that the various languages spoken, had themselves been ‘learned’ — whether very rapidly and miraculously, or more slowly and non-miraculously — by the language-speakers themselves.

Those languages could, in time and with sustained study, also be ‘learned’ even by many of the [at that stage] still-uncomprehending language-listeners. This again evidences that the ‘tongues’ were real and ‘learn- able’ languages of communication. They were not at all non-linguistic ecstatic utterances!

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