1 CORINTHIANS 14:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.”
If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker is a foreigner to me — Paul personalizes the principle: mutual incomprehension creates alienation (bárbaros, barbarian—etymologically one who speaks unintelligibly). Even uninterpreted tongues in corporate worship create stranger-dynamics rather than koinónia.
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