pray (therewith), in order that he may interpret’’; but this strains the con- struction, and γλώσσῃ appears to be added in ver. x4 just because the vb. προσεύχοµαι had not been so under- stood before.
§ 46. THE ΝΟΥΣ THE NEEDED ALLY OF THE ΠΝΕΥΜΑ, xiv. 14-20. In § 44 the Ap. has insisted on edification as the end and mark of God’s gifts to His Church, and in § 45 on intelligibility as a condition necessary thereto. Now the faculty of intelligence is the vows; and we are thus brought to see that for a. profitable conduct of worship, and for a sane and sound Church life (14, 17 ff., 23), the understanding must be in exer- cise: it is a vehicle indispensable (14 f.) to the energies of the spirit. On this point P. is at one with the men of Gnosis at Cor.; he discountenances all assump- tions made in the name of ‘‘the Spirit” that offend against sober judgment (20). This passage, in a sense, counterbalances i. 18-11. 5 ; it shows how far the Ap. is from approving a blind fanaticism or irrational mysticism, when he exalts the Gospel at the expense of "(πε wisdom of the world ”’.
Ver. 14. The Tongue has been marked. out as an inferior charism, because it does not edify others ; it is less desirable also because it does not turn. to account the man’s own intelligence: ‘If I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding (νοῦς) is unfruitful ’. The introductory γάρ (see txtl. note) seems hardly needed; if genuine, it attaches this ver. to ver. 13, aS giving a further reason why the γλωσσολαλῶν should desire to interpret—viz., that his own mind may partake fruitfully in his prayers. In any case, the consideration here-
13—18.
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in this sense, Sir. xii. 12; cf. Lk. xiv. 9 f. note below.
19. n See i. 41. ο See vii. 37. p See i. 4, and m above. viii. 1. 5 See xiii. 1.