The Works of

Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee

Tongues at Corinth: Languages, not Ecstasies!

In actual fact, however, the two verses can only mean: “If a man speaks publically in his own foreign language, let him first pray that he himself may be enabled to interpret it!” For the Greek itself has — “ho laloon gloosseei proseuchesthoo hina diermeeneueei!

“For, if I pray in my own foreign language while in public, my own spirit is indeed praying.” Indeed, I myself right then certainly understand what I am praying at that time. “But my understanding is unwise” to pray thus, publically, in my own foreign language — unless I translate [or get someone else to translate] my prayer. For my prayer would then need to be translated out of my own foreign language, and into the different language of the listeners (so as to benefit them too)!

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