Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Corinthians 14:15

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15. What is it then? —What is my determination thereupon? and —rather as Greek, "but"; I will not only pray with my spirit, which ( :- ) might leave the understanding unedified, BUT with the understanding also [ALFORD and ELLICOTT]. pray with the understanding also —and, by inference, I will keep silence altogether if I cannot pray with the understanding (so as to make myself understood by others). A prescient warning, mutatis mutandis, against the Roman and Greek practice of keeping liturgies in dead languages, which long since have become unintelligible to the masses; though their forefathers spoke them at a time when those liturgies were framed for general use. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"

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