“ I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: ”
I thank my God - Paul here shows that he did not undervalue or despise the power of speaking foreign languages. It was with him a subject of thanksgiving that he could speak so many; but he felt...
(8) I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: (8) He sets himself as an example, both that they may be ashamed of their foolish ambition, and also that he may avoid all suspicion of env...
1 Corinthians 14. Prophecy and Speaking with Tongues, their Relative Value and their Place in the Church Gathering. Paul now comes to the direct comparison between the two types of ecstatic speech...
thank . Same as "give thanks", 1 Corinthians 14:17 . I speak . speaking (as. do).
18. I thank, etc. As there are many that detract from another’s excellencies, in which they cannot themselves have distinction, Paul, that he might not seem to depreciate, through malignity...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: I speak with tongues more than ye all - He understood more languages than any of them did: and this was indispensably necessary, as he was the a...
I speak with tongues more, &c.— The occasion shews, that the Apostle considered this acquirement as a spiritual gift; and his using the present time shews that he spoke of it as then in his pos...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Tongues. So B. But 'Aleph (') G f g, Vulgate, have the singular, 'in a (tongue) foreign.'
(e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares th...
I thank my God. — Here the Apostle resumes in the first person, coming back, after the parenthesis, to the continuation of his own desire and example. He does not undervalue that gift the misuse an...
Chapter 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tong...
Understanding Promotes Edifying 1 Corinthians 14:13-25 The Apostle here gives two practical directions, in order to restore the rule of the understanding above the babble of incoherent sounds,...
The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...
(16) Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? (17) For thou ve...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all. This the apostle says, to observe to them that he did not despise speaking with tongues: nor did he endeavour to beat them off, and dissuade...
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Ver. 18. I thank my God, &c. ] Skill in tongues is, as now, a great blessing. Indeed at first when men began θεομαχειν, to fight against...
I thank my God , &c. As if he had said, I do not speak thus of foreign languages because I myself am deficient in them, for I must say, to the glory of that Being from whom all my gifts and tale...
Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the b...
On Spiritual Gifts. A. D. 57. 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pr...
Our Saviour, in the parable of the good shepherd, gives us this as his character, that the sheep hear his voice, and follow him, 1 Thessalonians 10:4 ; and we shall observe this great apostle ever...
The Use Of Spiritual Gifts in the Gatherings of God's People (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gi...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 14:1 . Follow after .—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31 ; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “ P...
What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 14:1-46 The gift of preaching superior to the gift tongues . 1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after charity; literally, chase; pursue. The word is one of w...
Only through the understanding of the hearer does the utterance of the Spirit result in edification:
1 Corinthians 1:4-6 ; 1 Corinthians 4:7
Talking in Tongues 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically...