Unknown Tongue
Unknown Tongue
(1Co 14:2; 1Co 14:4; 1Co 14:13-14; 1Co 14:19; 1Co 14:27) is a gloss of the A.V.; for the Greek has simply , a tongue, obviously meaning a different living language from that ordinarily employed by the speaker ( , Mar 16:17; Act 2:4). Others understand an ecstatic utterance of abrupt, incoherent, and unintelligible expressions which needed an interpreter. See the monographs cited by Volbeding, Index Programmatum, p. 73. SEE SPIRITUAL GIFTS.