...together you all speak with tongues and there comes in an unbeliever, will he not say you are mad ? " "I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand in a tongue," " for God is not the God of confusion but of peace." But this peculiar ecstatic state...

...German-Greek. Voltaire was a FrenchGreek. I do not mean to say that in later times great writers have not appeared who, out of the existing materials of modern...any modern writer would dare to observe. To write as Thucydides wrote, to speak as Demosthenes spoke, is to reject ornament, to spurn verbal cunning and...

...German-Greek. Voltaire was a FrenchGreek. I do not mean to say that in later times great writers have not appeared who, out of the existing materials of modern...any modern writer would dare to observe. To write as Thucydilk-s wrote, to speak as Demosthenes spoke, is to reject ornament, to spurn verbal cunning and...

...neither new law nor old." During his trial in 1538, the Vicar of Dollar quoted the words of Paul : " I had rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue." When asked where he found that, he replied by producing the New Testament. The...

...linguistic ability. I prefer Mr. Canning to Cardinal Mezzofanti, and I would rather, as St. Paul says, "speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a foreign tongue." ANTI-GALLICUS. A PICTURE OF ANCIENT BABYLON. — In the British and Foreign Evangelical...

...ourselves off from an acquaintance with the sources of a great part of the richness, the power and beauty of all that is great in modern literature....any modern writer would dare to observe. To write as Thucydides wrote, to speak as Demosthenes spoke, is to reject ornament, to spurn verbal cunning and...

...understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air." "In the church, I had rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." So, in human relationships and quite apart from any biblical conception of the...

...edifying of the church ;" and in verse 19 he plainly shows which is most for edification: "In the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding .... than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." It is obvious that all believers did not receive the gift of tongues; but all do...

...not from the amount written or spoken, that wisdom is to be derived, but, as the Apostle declared, " I had rather speak five words with my understanding, * * * than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." This speaking in an unknown tongue, I fear, is too much practised in our day; for...

...not from the amount written or spoken, that wisdom is to be derived, but, as the Apostle declared, " I had rather speak five words with my understanding, * * * than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." This speaking in an unknown tongue, I fear, is too much practised in our day; for...