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Tongues at Corinth: Languages, not Ecstasies!

 

Calvin and Hodge on ‘tongues’ in I Corinthians 12:8-30

Comments Calvin (on I Cor. 12:10): “The ‘interpretation of tongues’ was different from the ‘knowledge of tongues.’ For those who had the latter gift, often did not know the language of the people with whom they had to have dealings. Interpreters translated the foreign languages into the native speech.”

The learned Presbyterian Rev. Prof. Dr. Charles Hodge, sometime Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, wrote in his excellent commentary on First Corinthians that ‘kinds of tongues’ in I Cor. 12:8-10 means “the ability to speak in languages…. What was spoken with tongues, was intelligible to those who understood foreign languages….

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