Secondly, the verse does not say: ‘Whenever I pray in ecstatic utterances, my own spirit is simply swept along uncomprehendingly.’ No! Instead, the verse actually says: If I pray in a foreign language, my spirit [consciously] prays.”
Thirdly, the verse does not say: ‘My own understanding is disengaged, whenever I pray in ecstatic utterances which I myself cannot then understand.’ No! Instead, the verse actually says: “Let the one who speaks [publically] in a foreign language, pray that he might be enabled to translate it! For [otherwise] — although my own spirit would then indeed itself be praying — my understanding would be unfruitful or unwise. For my own untranslated foreign language message, would then bear no fruit in the lives of my uncomprehending listeners!
