“He who speaks with tongues, speaks not to men but to God…. ‘No man understandeth’ him…does not imply that the sounds uttered were in themselves unintelligible, so that no man living (unless inspired) could understand them…. The meaning is not that no man living, but no man present could understand. It is not the use of the gift of tongues that he censures, but the use of that gift when no one was present who understood the language employed….
“Mysteries mean divine truths…which God has revealed…. To make the word mean ‘things not understood’…is contrary to the usage of the word…. The difficulty was in the language used, not in the absence of meaning…. The implication is that these tongues were foreign to the hearers…. Therefore it is said, ‘no man understands him’….
