[B-Greek] tongues - languages

malcolm robertson mjriii2003 at yahoo.com
Thu May 26 11:20:12 EDT 2005


Dear Carl,
 
Thanks for the words of caution and your advice is prudent.  The aspect of interpretation that I would like to emphase is that context detremines meaning - not a single word or even an idiomatic turn of phrase.
 
The disclosed fact in Acts 2:3 KAI WFQHSAN AUTOIS DIAMERIZOMENAI GLWSSAI WSEI PUROS KAI EKAQISEN EF hENA hEKASTON AUTWN exhibits contextually that this phenomenon is absent elsewhere in Scripture.  This is an interpretive hint from Scripture itself.
 
A question that one might pose to oneself is how in Greek could the use or non use of GLWSSHS in this and other contexts be expressed differently?
 
While Mr. Weiss may think that his results are correct, I would simply counsel him to exercise what Han Conzelmann called the wissenschaftlicher Zweifel (scientific doubt).  In other words be circumspect and test your own conclusions.  This is not only good advice for anyone - but just plain common sense.
 
Cordially in Christ,
 
Malcolm Robertson
 
Eric Weiss wrote: 

With regard to the Greek:

My studies of the Greek wording in Acts and I Corinthians have led me to conclude that one 
cannot make a sharp distinction between what occurred in Acts 2 and in the other instances of 
tongues-speaking in Acts, and what was occurring at Corinth. They may have been two 
different kinds of tongues-speaking, but what I have concluded is that when one reads in the 
Greek every passage in Acts that has to do with LALEIN GLWSSAIS (Pentecost, Cornelius, 
Samaria, etc.), and all of I Corinthians 12-14, I find the language and wording too similar and 
overlapping to support there being a clear difference based on the Greek.



Eric S. Weiss



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