surely would have been able to communicate with someone.” 2 Try to imagine a scenario in which a person with the gift of tongues in Corinth stands up and uses his Spirit-empowered ability to speak, let’s say, in the language of the Parthians. (See Acts 2:9.) Paul might then take advantage of the situation to teach on the subject. “What you’ve just heard,” says Paul, “is one expression of the gift of tongues. And since what he just said is mysterious and incoherent in the absence of interpretation, he