more than twenty times, and in no instance is there any necessity or reason to understand it in other than its ordinary sense of discoursing, speaking. Who, for instance, would accuse Paul of saying, “I thank God, I babble with tongues more than ye all” (verse 18); or “let two or three of the prophets babble, and the others judge” (verse 29)? Hence appears the necessity, in interpretation, of observing the general usage rather than the etymology of words. In ascertaining the meaning