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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 1Cor 14:19
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
1Cor 14:19 · Douay-Rheims
“But in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also; than ten thousand words in a tongue.”
On this verse:
“I had rather--The Greek verb more literally expresses this meaning, "I WISH to speak five words with my understanding (rather) than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue"; even the two thousandth part of ten thousand. The Greek for "I would rather," would be a different verb. Paul would NOT wish at all to speak "ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.