1 CORINTHIANS 14:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:”
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you — Paul establishes his authority through personal spiritual experience. His glossolalia-experience is genuine and presumably abundant. This preempts any charge that he opposes tongues from ignorance or spiritual inferiority.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:18
“I thank God, speaking with tongues more than ye all.” And this he does also in another place intending, namely, to take away the advantages of Judaism and to show that henceforth they are nothing, he begins by declaring that himself had been endowed with them, yea, and that in very great excess; and then he calls them “loss,” thus saying, “If any man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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