1 Corinthians 14:39 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:39

“Wherefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.” For this too is his wont, not only to work out what is before him, but also starting from that to set right whatever seems to him in any way akin to it, and again to return to the former, so as not to appear to wander from the subject. For so when he was discoursing of their concord in their banquets, he digressed to their Communion in the Mysteries, and having thence put them to…