Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 14:19
Yet in the church I had rather speak (q) five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.
(q) A very few words.
Yet in the church I had rather speak (q) five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.
(q) A very few words.
Verse 19. _YET IN THE CHURCH_] As the grand object of public worship is the edification of those who attend, _five words_ spoken so as to convey edification, were of much more consequence than _ten t...
YET IN THE CHURCH - In the Christian assembly. The word “church” does not refer to the “edifice” where Christians worshipped, but to the organized body of Christians. I HAD RATHER ... - It is probabl...
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)...
HAD RATHER. desire to. App-102. WITH. Greek. _dia_, but the texts read "by" (Dat.) MIGHT TEACH. Greek. _katecheo._ See Acts 18:25. OTHERS. App-124....
_yet in the church_ "Whatever I may do in private, I should desire my public ministrations to be for the instruction and edification of the flock, and not for my own individual glorification." _teach_...
1 Corinthians 14:1-25. THE SUPERIORITY OF THE GIFT OF PROPHECY OVER THAT OF TONGUES...
ΤΩ͂Ι ΝΟΪ́ אABDEFG, Vulg. Peshito. Rec. διὰ τοῦ νοός with some copies of the Vetus Lat. 19. ἈΛΛᾺ ἘΝ ἘΚΚΛΗΣΊΑΙ. ‘Whatever I may do in private, I should desire my public ministrations to be for the ins...
_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...
ΈΝ ΈΚΚΛΗΣΊΣΙ (G1577) _dat. sing._ на собрании, в церкви. Место, где собирались люди Бога, чтобы поклоняться Ему, учить и проповедовать Слово Божье (Kistemaker). ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) _praes. ind. act._ я хочу...
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,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Proving by Tongues (1 Corinthians 14:13-25) 13 Therefore, he who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. 14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays b...
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. I HAD RATHER. The Greek more literal...
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...
IN THE CHURCH] i.e. at a Church assembly. St. Paul insists upon Church worship being really 'common prayer,' each worshipper joining intelligently in what is said. 20-25. Prophecy is better than 'ton...
_(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...
I THANK MY GOD. — Here the Apostle resumes in the first person, coming back, after the parenthesis, to the continuation of his own desire and example. He does not undervalue that gift the misuse and e...
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...
§ 46. THE ΝΟΥΣ THE NEEDED ALLY OF THE ΠΝΕΥΜΑ. In § 44 the Ap. has insisted on _edification_ as the end and mark of God's gifts to His Church, and in § 45 on _intelligibility_ as a condition necessary...
Again (_cf._ 6, 1 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Corinthians 4:9) the Ap. uses _himself_ for an instance in point. Even at Cor [2105], where this charism was abundant, no one “speaks with tongues” (mark the pl [2...
UNDERSTANDING PROMOTES EDIFYING 1 Corinthians 14:13 The Apostle here gives two practical directions, in order to restore the rule of the understanding above the babble of incoherent sounds, which wa...
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,...
Desire That Which Builds Up the Church Thus, Paul urged the Corinthian brethren to desire the spiritual gifts that would be most useful. Particularly, he urged them to desire those gifts which would b...
_But in the Church. The apostle here condemns the vanity of the Corinthians, who made a parade of their gift of tongues. (Calmet)_...
“I thank God, I speak in tongues more than ye all; 19. yet in the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in tongues.” The a...
(16) Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? (17) For thou ver...
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...
19._I would rather speak five words. _This is spoken _hyperbolically, _unless you understand _five words, _as meaning _five sentences. _Now as Paul, who might otherwise have exulted loftily in his pow...
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 ...
YET IN THE CHURCH I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS,.... Referring not to the five books of Moses, as Jerom suggests, and much less, as the Papists say, to the five words, "for this is my body"; by the mu...
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that _by my voice_ I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an _unknown_ tongue. Ver. 19. _In an unknown tongue_] A...
_I thank my God_, &c. As if he had said, I do not speak thus of foreign languages because I myself am deficient in them, for I must say, to the glory of that Being from whom all my gifts and talents a...
YET IN THE CHURCH I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS WITH MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT BY MY VOICE I MIGHT TEACH OTHERS ALSO, THAN TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE....
Only through the understanding of the hearer does the utterance of the Spirit result in edification:...
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...
HOWBEIT IN THE CHURCH. HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS WITH MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT. MIGHT INSTRUCT OTHERS ALSO, THAN TEN THOUSAND WORDS IN. TONGUE. 'howbeit in the church' -'in the assembly' (Alf). Agai...
15-25 There can be no assent to prayers that are not understood. A truly Christian minister will seek much more to do spiritual good to men's souls, than to get the greatest applause to himself. This...
Yet he had so great a regard to the end of his ministry, teaching others, and communicating Divine knowledge to them, that he had rather speak a little tending to that end, than never so much in a lan...
howbeit in the church [congregation] I had rather _speak five words with my understanding_ [so as to be understood], _that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue_. [Paul was...
1 Corinthians 14:19 yet G235 in G1722 church G1577 rather G2309 (G5719) speak G2980 (G5658) five G4002
'I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all. Howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue....
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....
HOWBEIT IN CHURCH (αλλα εν εκκλησια). Private ecstasy is one thing (cf. 2 Corinthians 12:1-9) but not in church worship.THAT I MAY INSTRUCT (ινα κατηχησω). Final clause with ινα. For the rare verb...
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...
BUT IN CHURCH WORSHIP. [The church is the people. Church worship is the public meeting.] Five words. This is Paul's scale of values. Five words that teach others are more valuable than thousands of wo...
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...
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 14:21; 1 Corinthians 14:22; 1 Corinthians 14:4...
Teach [κ α τ η χ η σ ω]. Orally. See on Luke 1:4....
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...
With my understanding — In a rational manner; so as not only to understand myself, but to be understood by others....