• — ep/irivsiav, interpretation) by which one man may interpret an unknown tongue to another. — oixobo^v, edification) the best rule.
27. E/Ve, If ) He now more particularly explains how all things may be done for edification. — rig , any man) Merely one person ought never to have spoken in an unknown tongue ; but if one did speak, one or two should have followed to vindicate the abundance of the Spirit. — rpeTg, three) may speak. — dvd /Ispog) by a division of the times or even of the places of speaking.
28. E av ds /xr\ fj, hut if there be not) Either he himself, who spoke in an unknown tongue, might have interpreted, ver. 13 ; or another. — arydru, let him he silent) who speaks in an unknown tongue. — zuurp xai r& ©so), to himself and to God) ver. 4, 2. — XaXs/rw. let him speak) privately.
29. Upotp/jra,! hut let the prophets) An Antithesis to those who speak in an unknown tongue. Prophecy, strictly so called, is opposed to revelation , ver. 6 ; prophecy , used in a wider sense, (as well as revelation ) is opposed to knowledge : ihid. Again, com- prehending knowledge , it is opposed to tongues , ver. 4. — XaXs/ruffav, let them speak) supply dvd fispog , one hy one , ver. 27. — oi uXkoi, the rest) viz., of the prophets. — diaxpivsruffav, decide [ judge]) even by word of mouth.
30. K otdyj/jj'svf) while he sits , listening. — 6 rrpurog, the first) who formerly spoke.
31. Kodi ha, one hy one) so that one person may always give way to another. — rravrsg pavdavugi, all may learn) by conversing, inquiring, speaking, listening : all, being prophets. A man learns by teaching : he learns by speaking, and asking questions, ver. 34, 35. \Many continue to he foolish and languid in spiritual things, because they almost never speak about such things. — Y . g.] — rrapaxoLkoovrai, may he comforted) Sometimes the speaking of another produces in us more awakening effect, sometimes our own.
32. K a/') and indeed ; so xai, 2 Cor. v. 15 ; 1 John iii. 4. — rrvsv/nara ffpopriruv, the spirits of the prophets) The abstract for the concrete, the prophets, even while they are acted upon (under the Divine impulse). — rrpopriraig, to the prophets) Pie does not say, to the spirits of the prophets. — vrrordfffferai, are subject) not that a prophet would for the sake of another deny or cast away the truth of his prophecy ; 1 Kings xiii. 17, etc. : for the word of prophecy is above the prophets, ver. 37 ; but that he should not