1 Corinthians 14:28 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:28

“But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the Church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.” What do you say, tell me? Having spoken so much of tongues, that the gift is a thing unprofitable, a thing superfluous, if it have no interpreter, do you command again to speak with tongues? I do not command, says he, neither do I forbid; as when he says, “if any of them that believe not bid you to a feast and you be disposed to go,” he says it not laying down a…