“The prophet spoke in the native language of his hearers; the speaker with tongues, in a foreign language…. The speaker with tongues did not edify the church, because he was not understood. He did edify himself, because he understood himself! This verse, therefore, proves that the understanding was not in abeyance, and that the speaker was not in an ecstatic state….
“‘That the church may receive edification’…proves that the contents of these discourses delivered in an unknown tongue, were edifying and therefore did not consists in…enigmas and dark sayings. This passage also proves that the gift of interpretation, although distinct from that of tongues, might be — and doubtless often was — possessed by the same person, and consequently that he understood what he said!”
