9So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)In this paragraph he goes on to show how vain a thing the ostentation of speaking unknown and unintelligible language must be. It was altogether unedifying and unprofitable (1 Cor. 14:6): If I come to you speaking with tongues, what will it profit you, unless I speak to you by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine ? It would signify nothing to utter any of these in an unkn…
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