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 God, they were compelled λογομαχειν, to babble in divers languages, 72, as Epiphanius affirmeth. But God hath turned this curse into a blessing unto his people, Acts 2:4,13, and as in the first plantation of the gospel, so in the late reformation; God sent it before, as his munition to batter the forts of Antichrist, who had banished arts and languages, overspreading all with barbarism and atheism. Graece nosse suspectum erat. Hebraice fere haereticum.