1 CORINTHIANS 14:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.”
And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop — flexibility is assumed: if the Spirit moves another prophet mid-utterance, the first speaker yields. This shows genuine openness to Spirit-movement and the hope that multiple voices contribute to fuller truth.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:30
“Let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.” No where has he added, “at the most,” as in the case of the tongues. And how is this, one says? For he makes out that neither is prophesy sufficient in itself, if at least he permits the judgment to others. Nay, surely it is quite sufficient; and this is why he did not stop the mouth of the prophet, as of the other, when there is no interpreter; nor, as in his case he said, “if there be no interpreter let…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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