1 CORINTHIANS 14:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.”
You are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up — the tension: even sincere thanksgiving in tongues fails the primary criterion of edification. Spiritual authenticity (well-giving-of-thanks) does not automatically serve the body. Private piety must yield to communal purpose in worship settings.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:17
“For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.” Observe how again here he brings his stone to the plumb-line, every where seeking the edification of the Church. Now by the “unlearned” he means the laymen, and signifies that he also suffers no little loss when he is unable to say the Amen. And what he says is this: “if you shall bless in a barbarian tongue, not knowing what you say, nor able to interpret, the layman cannot respond the Amen. For not hearing…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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