1 CORINTHIANS 14:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.”
For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret — Paul moves to practical regulation: if you speak in a tongue, pray for interpretation. The responsibility lies with the speaker. This assumes glossolalia occurs but requires it to be qualified by intelligibility for public use.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:13
“So also ye, since as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound unto the edifying of the Church.” Do you see his aim every where, how he looks to one thing continually and in all cases, the general utility, the profiting the Church; laying this down as a kind of rule? And he did not say, “that you may obtain the gifts” but, “that you may abound,” i.e., that you may even possess them in great plenitude. Thus, so far am I from wishing you not to possess…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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