Nor will we here argue that I Cor. 13:10’s “what is perfect” is the completion of Scripture, around A.D. 70 — by which time I Cor. 13:8’s miraculous gifts of “tongues” etc. would therefore “cease.” This has been so argued by Edwards, Dabney, Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, Pink, Reymond, Unger, Du Toit, Gaffin, Judisch and Budgen. Indeed, we ourselves have so argued — in our own work thereon, called Miracles — What and When?, Brisbane, 1985, especially pp 35-40.
Here, however, we are concerned simply with the need to translate all foreign languages spoken in the congregation. This translating was needed in the past — even when those languages were sometimes spoken miraculously! Similar translation is still needed at the present — wherever foreign tongues might (non-miraculously) be spoken during public worship or public prayer meetings.
