I Cor. 14:17 — the language-speaker “gives thanks well”
The language-speaker indeed “gives thanks well.” I Cor. 14:17. He is able to do so, precisely because he understands what he is saying! But the language-listeners, if they are “unlearned” in the tongue just prayed in, do not understand it. They do not then rationally comprehend it. And, not comprehending it, they should not in that case say: “Amen!” — as if they had indeed comprehended it!
In actual fact, they do not comprehend that tongue. This is so, precisely because they had never previously learned that language of the language-speaker. Or alternatively, this is so because they had not then heard the language-message translated [to them as those “unlearned” in that foreign language, so that they could then understandingly say ‘Amen!'”
