![]() The Corinthian Christians missed the motive and the goal of the gifts, making them their own goal. Prophecy, knowledge, and faith to do miracles are likewise irrelevant apart from love. Yet, it is interesting to consider angels may have capacities for communication that we do not have, and will not have until believers are glorified in their resurrection bodies.Ĭ. How this is we cannot tell: some of the schoolmen say, it is by way of impression: that way God, indeed, communicates his mind sometimes to his people, making secret impressions of his will upon their minds and understandings.” Poole was not correct in his suggestion that angels can’t speak – in many places in the Bible, angelic beings speak, both in heaven, and on earth. Poole has a fascinating comment, suggesting that the tongues of… angels describes how God may speak to us in a non-verbal way: “Angels have no tongues, nor make any articulate audible sounds, by which they understand one another but yet there is certainly a society or intercourse among angels, which could not be upheld without some way amongst them to communicate their minds and wills to each other. Apparently, there are angelic languages men can speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The reference to tongues of… angels shows that though the genuine gift of tongues is a legitimate language, it may not be a “living” human language, or may not be a human language at all. In Paul’s day, many Jews believed angels had their own language, and by the Spirit, one could speak it. There is no other way to understand the reference to tongues of… angels. ![]() But the way tongues is used here shows it can, and usually does, refer to a supernatural language by which a believer communicates to God. This has led some to say the gift of tongues is simply the ability to communicate the gospel in other languages, or it is the capability of learning languages quickly. Tongues of men and of angels: The ancient Greek word translated tongues has the simple idea of “languages” in some places (Acts 2:11 and Revelation 5:9). “People of little religion are always noisy he who has not the love of God and man filling his heart is like an empty wagon coming violently down a hill: it makes a great noise, because there is nothing in it.” (Josiah Gregory, cited in Clarke)ī. Without love, a person may speak with the gift of tongues, but it is as meaningless as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. Paul reminds them even the gift of tongues is meaningless without love. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels: The Corinthians were enamored with spiritual gifts, particularly the gift of tongues. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.Ī. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. (1-2) Love is superior to spiritual gifts in and of themselves. Alan Redpath said one could get a spiritual suntan from the warmth of this chapter. If you tear it apart too much, you lose the beauty. Campbell Morgan wrote that examining this chapter is like dissecting a flower to understand it.
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