10. Prophecy. Not mere foretelling of the future. Quite probably very little of this element is contemplated ; but utter- ance under immediate divine inspiration: delivering inspired exhortations, instructions, or warnings. See on prophet, Luke vii. 26. The fact of direct inspiration distinguished prophecy from “ teaching.”
Discerning of spirits. Rev., correctly, discernings. Dis- tinguishing between the different prophetic utterances, whether they proceed from true or false spirits. See 1 Tim. iv. 1; 1 John iv. 1, 2.
Divers kinds of tongues (yévn yAwoodv). I. Passaces RELATING TO THE GIFT OF TONGUES. Mark xvi. 17; Acts ii. 3- al,ox. 465 xix. 6571) Cor yxii 105 283) xii xiv, Possibly Eph. v.18; 1 Pet. iv. 11. JI. Terms emptoyvep. New tongues (Mark xvi. 17): other or different tongues (érepas, Acts ii. 4): kinds (yévn) of tongues (1 Cor. xii. 10): simply tongues or tongue (yAdooa, yAdooa, 1 Cor. xiv.): to speak with tongues or @ tongue (yAwooas or YNdoon rarely, Acts ii. 4; x. 46 ; xix. 6; 1 Cor. xiv. 2, 4, 18, 14, 19, 27): to pray in a tongue (mpocedyer Jar yhooon, 1 Cor. xiv. 14, 15), equivalent to pray- ing in the spirit as distinguished from praying with the under- standing: tongues of men and angels (1 Cor. xiii. 1) ge Lis Recorpep Facts In THE New Trsrament. (1.) The first re- corded bestowment of the gift was at Pentecost (Acts ii.). The
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question arises whether the speakers were miraculously en- dowed to speak with other tongues, or whether the Spirit in- terpreted the apostle’s words to each in his own tongue. Prob- ably the latter was the case, since there is no subsequent notice of the apostles preaching in foreign tongues; there is no allusion to foreign tongues by Peter, nor by Joel, whom he quotes. This fact, moreover, would go to explain the opposite effects on the hearers. (2.) Under the power of the Spirit, the company ad- dressed by Peter in the house of Cornelius at Caesarea spake with tongues. Acts x. 44-46. (8.) Certain disciples at Ephe- sus, who received the Holy Spirit in the laying on of Paul’s hands, spake with tongues and prophesied, Acts xix. 6. IV. MEANING OF THE TERM “TONGUE.” The various explanations are: the tongue alone, inarticulately : rare, provincial, poetic, or archaic words: language or dialect. The last is the correct definition. It does not necessarily mean any of the known lan- guages of men, but may mean the speaker’s own tongue, shaped in a peculiar manner by the Spirit’s influence; or an entirely new spiritual language. V. Nature or THE Girt In THE CorINTH- 14N Cuurcu. (1.) The gift itself was identical with that at Pentecost, at Caesarea, and at Ephesus, but differed in its man- ifestations, in that it required an interpreter. 1 Cor. xii. 10, 30; xiv. 5, 13, 26,27. (2.) It was closely connected with proph- esying: 1 Cor. xiv. 1-6, 22, 25; Acts ii. 16-18; xix. 6. Com- pare 1 Thess. v.19, 20. It was distinguished from prophesying as an inferior gift, 1 Cor. xiv. 4,5; and as consisting in ex- pressions of praise or devotion rather than of exhortation, warn- ing, or prediction, 1 Cor. xiv. 14-16. (8.) It was an ecstatic utterance, unintelligible to the hearers, and requiring interpre- tation, or a corresponding ecstatic condition on the part of the hearer in order to understand it. It was not for the edification of the hearer but of the speaker, and even the speaker did not always understand it, 1 Cor. xiv. 2,19. It therefore impressed unchristian bystanders as a barbarous utterance, the effect of madness or drunkenness, Acts il. 18, 15; 1 Cor. xiv. 11, 23. Hence it is distinguished from the utterance of the understand- ing, 1 Cor. xiv. 4, 14-16, 19, 27. VI. Paut’s esrmmaTE oF THE art. He himself was a master of the gift (1 Cor. xiv. 18), but Vou. III.—17