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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

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been tedious. And the γλῶσσαι are dropped in v. 9. Obviously, they will be ‘rendered idle.’ Tongues were a rapturous mode of addressing God; and no such rapture would be needed when the spirit was in His immediate presence. But Tongues seem to have ceased first of all the gifts. The plur. προφητεῖαι indicates different kinds of inspired preaching; but γνώσεις (א A, etc.) is a corruption to harmonize with the preceding plurals. 9. Again we have a chiasmus: prophesyings, knowledge (v. 8), know,
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