Even such lifeless. Such things as the flute or harp must sound the notes distinctly to communicate the tune being played. What Paul says here may be directed mostly toward "ecstatic speech" which is gibberish.
Verse 1 Corinthians 14:7. _AND EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE_] I may, as if he had said, illustrate this farther by referring to a _pipe_ or _harp_; if these were to utter mere _sounds_ without order, har...
THINGS WITHOUT LIFE - Instruments of music. WHETHER PIPE - This instrument (αὐλὸς aulos) was usually made of reeds, and probably had a resemblance to a flageolet. OR HARP - This instrument (κιθάρα...
4. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH A TONGUE. CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Prophecy the better gift. (1 Corinthians 14:1 .)_ 2. Intelligibility demanded. (1 Corinthians 14:14 .) 3. Practical instructions for the publ...
1 CORINTHIANS 14. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH TONGUES, THEIR RELATIVE VALUE AND THEIR PLACE IN THE CHURCH GATHERING. Paul now comes to the direct comparison between the two types of ecstatic speech on...
Pursue this love. Covet the spiritual things, especially the gift of forthtelling the truth to others. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one can understand. By the...
THE FALSE AND THE TRUE WORSHIP (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)...
AND EVEN. Nevertheless. Greek. _homos._ Only here, John 12:42.Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:15. WITHOUT LIFE. Greek. _apsuchos._ Only here. SOUND. Greek. _phone,_ voice. WHETHER, OR.
_except they give a distinction in the sounds_ The effect of a melody depends entirely upon the distinction of its musical intervals. The effect of speech in like manner is dependent upon its being th...
ὍΜΩΣ. Not, as A.V. ὁμῶς, equally, but NOTWITHSTANDING. Its place is properly after κιθάρα. ‘In the case of things without life, whether pipe or harp, which give out a sound, yet nevertheless, if there...
1 Corinthians 14:1-25. THE SUPERIORITY OF THE GIFT OF PROPHECY OVER THAT OF TONGUES...
_TONGUES MUST BE PROPERLY INTERPRETED -- 1 CORINTHIANS 14:6-19:_ What good would it do speak in a language that the church could not understand? It would do no good for Paul to speak without giving th...
ΌΜΩΣ (G3676) Это слово может рассматриваться в _знач._ "тем не менее" "то же самое"; или же как наречие со _знач._ "подобно этому" (BD, 234; МТ, 337; BAGD). ΆΨΥΧΟΣ (G895) безжизненный, бездушный. Об...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Preaching by Prophecy (1 Corinthians 14:1-12) 14 Make love your aim, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. 2For one who speaks in a...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 14:1-19. Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men,...
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? Translate, 'Even things without life-gi...
11 The time came when the apostle admonished and taught in order that he should present every man _ mature _ in Christ (Col_1:28). Epaphras struggled in prayers that they should stand mature and compl...
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy_ The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares that i...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 *PROPHECY AND TONGUES 14:1-40 1. THE EFFECT OF *PROPHECY 14:1-5 V1 Follow the way of love. You should be eager to have the gifts of th...
AND EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE. — The pipe and harp were the best-known instruments, and the principle just laid down of the inutility of sounds unless they be distinctive is illustrated by reference to...
CHAPTER 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tongues...
§ 45. UTTERANCE USELESS WITHOUT CLEAR SENSE. P. has just asked what the Cor [2034] would think of him, if in their present need he came exhibiting his power as a speaker with Tongues, but without a wo...
Ὅμως τὰ ἄψυχα, “Quin et inanima” (Cv [2035]); as in Galatians 3:15, the part [2036] emphasises the word immediately following, not ψωνὴν διδόντα (“though giving sound”) in contrast to ἐὰν διαστολὴν …...
THE GIFT OF “PROPHESYING” 1 Corinthians 14:1 The word _prophesy_ is used here, as so largely in Scripture, not in the limited sense of foretelling the future, but of pouring forth heaven-given speech...
The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...
One Must Be Able to Discern To Learn If the people in the assembly could not learn from what was said, what good was the sound? Even in musical sound, there must be a distinct sound made in order to...
(3) And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? (3) He sets forth that which he said...
“Even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds..., how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8. For, also, if the trumpet give an uncer...
(1) Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. (2) For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him;...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
7._Nay even things without life. _He brings forward similitudes, first from musical instruments, and then afterwards from the nature of things generally, there being no voice that has not some peculia...
Two Verses in this Chapter 14 demand a little attention (1 Corinthians 14:1-2 the 3rd and the 6th (1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6). Verse 3 ...
AND EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE GIVING SOUND,.... He instances in things inanimate, that have neither reason, sense, nor life, in musical instruments, and these of various sorts: WHETHER PIPE OR HARP; w...
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? Ver. 7. _Except they give a distinction_]...
_And even_ Greek, ομως, _in like manner_, (the word, it seems, being here used for ομοιως, as it sometimes is by the poets, see Beza and Macknight,) _things without life_ Inanimate things; _whether pi...
A DISTINCTION; the meaning of which shall be understood by the hearers....
AND EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE, GIVING SOUND, WHETHER PIPE OR HARP, EXCEPT THEY GIVE A DISTINCTION IN THE SOUNDS, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS PIPED OR HARPED?...
Public utterance is valueless without clear understanding:...
Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the bo...
SOUNDS: Or, tunes...
EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE, GIVING. VOICE, WHETHER PIPE OR HARP, IF THEY GIVE NOT. DISTINCTION IN THE SOUNDS, HOW SHALL IT BE KNOWN WHAT IS PIPED OR HARPED? 'Even things without life' -'This is only c...
6-14 Even an apostle could not edify, unless he spoke so as to be understood by his hearers. To speak words that have no meaning to those who hear them, is but speaking into the air. That cannot answ...
In the sounds which are artificially made by the use of wind music, or other music, nothing could be understood, if art had not also devised a distinction in the sounds; that one sound should signify...
Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?...
The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew But all these are blind who speak and hear, like sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, in which there is no perception of those things which are meant by their sound.[62]...
1 Corinthians 14:7 Even G3676 life G895 whether G1535 flute G836 or G1535 harp G2788 make G1325 (G5723) so
'Even things without life, giving a voice (noise), whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?' Let them consider the example of...
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE GATHERINGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gifts....
1 Corinthians 14:7. EVEN THINGS WITHOUT LIFE GIVING SOUND, WHETHER PIPE OR HARP the only kind of musical instruments known to the Greeks. IF THEY GIVE NOT A DISTINCTION IN THE SOUNDS or ‘notes,' such...
THINGS WITHOUT LIFE (αψυχα). Without a soul (α privative, ψυχη) or life. Old word only here in N.T.PIPE (αυλος). Old word (from αω, αυω, to blow), only here in N.T.HARP (κιθαρα). Old word. Stri...
CONTENTS: Prophecy and speaking in tongues. The order of the ministry of this gift in the church. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: That is the best and most eligible gift which best an...
What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary g...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 14:6 Paul uses several illustrations to show that speaking in tongues without interpretation does not strengthen the faith of anyone other than the speaker; such ed...
_And even things without life_, &c. That tongues profit nothing unless they are understood can be seen, even from a comparison drawn from inanimate things; for a pipe or harp are of no use unless they...
CHAPTER XIV SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He puts prophecy before the gift of tongues, because (_a_) it is of great use in edifying others, and tongues are not, unless some one interpret; (_b_) because...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 14:1. FOLLOW AFTER.—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “_Pursue_”...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 _The_ _gift of preaching superior to the gift_ _tongues_. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY; literally, _chase; pursue. _The word is one of whi
So Paul exhorts, Follow after love and desire spiritual (1 Corinthians 14:1), But rather, that you may prophecy. We were told to covet earnestly the best gifts. Now, again, he is saying the same thi...
1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 14:8; Luke 7:32; Matthew 11:17;...
Voice [φ ω ν η ν]. See on sound, Romans 10:18. The sound generally. Used sometimes of sounds emitted by things without life, as a trumpet or the wind. See Matthew 24:31; John 3:8. Harp [κ ι θ α ρ α]....
TALKING IN TONGUES 1 Corinthians 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically assert t...
How shall it be known what is piped or harped — What music can be made, or what end answered?...
Our apostle here proceeds to illustrate his former arguments by. similitude taken from musical instruments, the one used in peace, to wit, the harp; the other in war, to wit, the trumpet; as they are...