...yet greater is he that speaketh openly than he that speaketh with tongues — except he interpret. I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a ' tongue.' Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. If there be no interpreter...

...unfruitful. What is it then ? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. ... I had rather speak five words with my understanding . . . than ten thousand words in a tongue." Sacramentarianism * II Tim. i : 7. would, I believe, be rebuked by Paul for the same reason that he...

...word from the lips of a man becomes a jumble of echoing incoherence. "In the church," said Saint Paul, "I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a tongue." It is quite possible to speak of either of these elements in a way to belittle them or to brand them...

..."tongues," which meant in practice that they usually talked an appalling amount of nonsense. He said, "I had rather speak five words with my understanding, . . . than ten thousand words in a tongue." There is this distinction between the modern advance of scientific thought and the modern advance of...

...by the term spirit Paul means feeling. In the nineteenth verse following he says, "Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding . . . than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue; " that is, with his spirit (feeling). Paul would not do away with the activity of...

...Paul warns the Corinthians against the practice of glossolalia (speaking in tongues as it is called) : "I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue", as he believes that "God is not the author of confusion but of peace".19 Religious...

...twenty-five members, to his home and gave them a sobering talk on the theme from I Corinthians 14:18-19, "I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." 44 The following Spring, Dewey addressed the Ministerial Band on "The Relation...

...Paul frankly acknowledges this. The speaking "in a tongue" was one of them. "I had rather," he says, "speak five words with my understanding . . . than ten thousand words In a tongue";" but he thanked God that he had the "gift," that he could speak "with tongues more than you all"; for...

...Cor. xiv, sometimes of intelligent speech, " Yet in the church I had rather speak (JsXu XaXij<rai) five words with my understanding . . . than ten thousand words in a tongue" (v. 19). Here the reason given " that I might teach others," shows that the gift of tongues was not...