Gift Of Tongues
GIFT OF TONGUES
An ability given to the apostles of readily and intelligibly speaking a variety of languages which they had never learnt. This was a most glorious and important attestation to the Gospel, as well as a suitable, and indeed, in their circumstances, a necessary furniture for the mission for which the apostles and their assistants were designed. Nor is there any reason, with Dr. Middleton, to understand it as merely an occasional gift, so that a person might speak a language most fluently one hour, and be entirely ignorant of it in the next; which neither agrees with what is said of the abuse of it, nor would have been sufficient to answer the end proposed.
See Act 2:1-47 :
See Gill and Henry in Loc.; Jortin’s Remarks, vol. 1: p. 15-21; Essay on the Gift of Tongues; Middleton’s Miscel. Works, vol. 2: p. 379; Doddridge’s Lect. lec. 141.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
gift of Tongues
One of the preternatural gifts mentioned by Saint Paul; the gift of speaking so as to be understood by all, and the corresponding ability of the hearers to understand one who is speaking in a foreign tongue. Acts, 2, tells how, men of every nation under heaven, 18 being specified, understood the Apostles in Jerusalem the first Pentecost as they spoke in diverse tongues. Saint Francis Xavier and other Apostolic men had this gift.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Gift of Tongues
SEE TONGUES, GIFT OF.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Gift of Tongues
See TONGUES, GIFT OF.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Gift Of Tongues
an ability given to the Apostles and others of readily and intelligibly speaking a variety of languages which they had never learned. This was a glorious and decisive attestation to the Gospel, as well as a suitable, and, indeed, in their circumstances, a necessary qualification for the mission for which the Apostles and their coadjutors were designed. Nor is there any reason, with Dr. Middleton, to understand it as merely an occasional gift, so that a person might speak a language most fluently one hour, and be entirely ignorant of it the next; which neither agrees with what is said of the abuse of it, nor would it have been sufficient to answer the end proposed, Acts 2. Some appear to have been gifted with one tongue, others with more. To St. Paul this endowment was vouchsafed in a more liberal degree, than to many others; for, as to the Corinthians, who had received the gift of tongues, he says, that he spake with tongues more than they all.