So likewise you, by the tongue, except ye utter words that have [a]signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? for ye shall speak in the air.

10 [b]There are so many kinds of voices (as it cometh to pass) in the world, and none of them is dumb.

11 Except I know then the power of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a Barbarian, and he that [c]speaketh, shall be a Barbarian unto me.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:9 That do fitly utter the matter itself.
  2. 1 Corinthians 14:10 He proveth that interpretation is necessarily to be joined with the gift of tongues, by the manifold variety of languages, insomuch that if one speak to another without an interpreter, it is as if he spake not.
  3. 1 Corinthians 14:11 As the Papists in all their sermons and they that ambitiously pour out some Hebrew or Greek words in the Pulpit before the unlearned people, thereby to get them a name of vain learning.

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