ancient Corinth’s Greek lifestyle, were in the grip of a sorry distortion of their viewpoint on “spiritual language”; that is, tongue speaking. Even though they had proven readily accepting, as opposed to being passive or rejective as is the case sometimes today, their problem was not so much in their practice as their perspective. They lacked insight on how to allow tongues without losing the intended beauty and blessing of this spiritual language. Paul had begun his correction with the marvelous, timeless