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Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee

Tongues at Corinth: Languages, not Ecstasies!

Now this Biblical verse, states the Confession, means that all prayer, “if vocal” or audible, is to be made only “in a known tongue.” This means a tongue which is the known common or “vulgar language” of a specific “nation.” (See West. Conf. 1:8u.)

It means a real language known to the language-speaker while he so speaks in that tongue. It also means a real language knowable by the language-listeners. The language could be know-able by them, because already known to them. Or it could be knowable to them, because translatable into another tongue already known to them. It could then be translated, immediately after being uttered by the language-speaker.

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