{"id":2441,"date":"2013-08-08T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:07:27","slug":"1-corinthians-147-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 14:7-11"},"content":{"rendered":"

7\u00a0<\/sup>Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

8\u00a0<\/sup>For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

9\u00a0<\/sup>So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

10\u00a0<\/sup>There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them\u00a0is\u00a0without significance.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

11\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks\u00a0will be\u00a0a foreigner to me.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

uncertain (v.8) = indistinct, lacking in clearness<\/h3>\n

prepare for battle (v.8) \u2014 one trumpet sound called soldiers to battle, another called them to rest. If the trumpet couldn’t be understood, the soldier wouldn’t know what to do.<\/h3>\n

tongue (v.9) \u2014 here, referring to the physical tongue in comparison with instruments<\/h3>\n

into the air (v.9) \u2014 as though there were nobody to hear<\/h3>\n

it may be (v.10) \u2014 the exact number is immaterial<\/h3>\n

languages (v.10) \u2014 actual languages, known to those who speak them<\/h3>\n

foreigner (v.11) = barbarian \u2014 Used in Paul’s day of anyone who didn’t speak Greek<\/h3>\n

There are many, many languages, not one of which is unintelligible, for every language on earth is understood by those who speak it. But to a Greek, an address in a foreign language is of no value, and is not more than gibberish to him. This holds true in the Church. Unless there be an interpreter, he who speaks in an “unknown tongue does not know what he \u00a0is saying, nor do those who listen: and the voice of language is useless. \u2014 Greene, page 448.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Two points:<\/h3>\n
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    These verses make it very clear that the gift of tongues referred to existing languages. Paul comes right out and says in verses 10 and 11 that he’s talking about languages that are understood by native speakers.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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    If the Bible said nothing else about tongues except what is in these five verses, they would be enough to show that tongues, as it is practiced today, is not of the Holy Spirit. Unintelligible gibberish conveys no meaning to the hearers, is of as much value as if there were no hearers, and makes the speaker a barbarian.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    7\u00a0Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played? 8\u00a0For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}