The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 177

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THE MIRACLE OF TONGUES we see, first, in delirious own personal thinking;

who say

persons,

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things outside of their

second, in the insane, whose incoherent

no sense third, in persons possessed, whose vocal organs by demons; fourth, in Balaam, whose vocal organs uttered words of blessing upon Israel against his will. Hence it must be conceded that in man three things are possible First, that for a time he maybe deprived of the use of his vocal talk has

;

are used

organs.

may be

Second, that the use of these organs spirit

who

appropriated by a

has overcome him.

Third, that the Holy Spirit, appropriating his vocal organs, can

produce sounds from his lips which are "new," and the language which ordinarily he speaks. Fourthly the word

other" than

— In the Greek these sounds invariably are designated by tongues, hence language.

y?.uTTat, i.e.,

from which

"

this

word

is taken,

strong opposition to the

"

the

word

"

In the Greek world,

glotta

"

always stands in

logos," reason.

A man's thinking is the hidden,

invisible, imperceptible process

Thought has a soul, but no body. But when the thought manifests itself and adopts a body, then there is a word. And the tongue being the movable organ of speech, it was said that the tongue gives a body to the thought. Hence the contrast between the logos, i.e., that which a man thinks with the mind, and the glotta, i.e., that which he utters with the vocal organs. Ordinarily the glotta comes only through and after the logos. of his mind.

But

in the miracle of

nomenon sounds.

tongues

we

discover the extraordinary phe-

that while the logos remained inactive, the glotta uttered

And since

it

was a phenomenon

of sounds

which proceeded

not from the thinking mind, but from the tongue, the Holy Scripture calls it

very appropriately a

gift of

the glottai, i.L, a gift of tongue

— or sound-phenomena. Lastly

we

—In answer to the question, How must this be understood?

offer the following representation

of his thinking of the

Holy

;

and

Spirit.

this thinking in

:

Speech in

Speech in a sinless state

of inspiration, in-breathing of the

man

a sinless state

Holy

is

is

is

the result

an in-shining

therefore the result

Spirit.

Hence in a sinless state man's language would have been the pure and perfect product of an operation of the Holy Spirit. He

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