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Amen... The unlearned, not knowing that you are then blessing, will not
be qualified to join with you by saying Amen to your blessing. The use
or abuse of strange tongues, of which the apostle here speaks, does not
regard the public liturgy of the church, (in which strange tongues were
never used,) but certain conferences of the faithful, ver. 26, etc., in
which, meeting together, they discovered to one another their various
miraculous gifts of the Spirit, common in those primitive times; amongst
which the apostle prefers that of prophesying before that of speaking
strange tongues, because it was more to the public edification. Where
also not, that the Latin, used in our liturgy, is so far from being a
strange or unknown tongue, that it is perhaps the best known tongue in
the world.

14:17. For thou indeed givest thanks well: but the other is not edified.

14:18. I thank my God I speak with all your tongues.

14:19. But in the church I had rather speak five words with my
understanding, that I may instruct others also: than ten thousand words
in a tongue.

14:20. Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be
children: and in sense be perfect.

14:21. In the law it is written: In other tongues and other lips I will
speak to this people: and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

14:22. Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to
unbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers.

14:23. If therefore the whole church come together into one place, and
all speak with tongues, and there come in unlearned persons or infidels,
will they not say that you are mad?

14:24. But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or
an unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all.

14:25. The secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so, falling down
on his face, he will adore God, affirming that God is among you indeed.

14:26. How is it then, brethren? When you come together, every one of
you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue,
hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.

14:27. If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by
three, and in course: and let one interpret.

14:28. But if there be no interpreter, let him hold his peace in the
church and speak to himself and to God.

14:29. And let the prophets speak, two or three: and let the rest
judge.

14:30. But if any