[B-Greek] First Corinthians 14:18

Doug Hoxworth dhoxworth at charter.net
Wed Sep 24 14:55:19 EDT 2003


><Iver>
>Your last comment is missing the crucial contrast between *private* "speaking in tongues" for one's own edification (v. 4) which Paul wants all of them to do (v. 5), and *public* speaking without an interpretation. It is this last action that Paul discourages because the EKKLHSIA is not edified by it

<doug>
actually more properly the contrast is between speaking in 
languages and prophecy. it is debatable what the 
distinction is that paul is making by switching between 
singular and plural of GLWSSA if this is what you're 
referring to. anyway, this seems to be a little "slipping 
of theology in" and not something that can necessarily be 
gathered unequivocally from the semantics, syntax, or even 
the pragmatics.



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