John Gill's Exposition on 1 Corinthians 14:10

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices, etc.] ançl, “tongues”, or “languages”, as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them, as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at Babel; there may be more or less: and none of them is without signification: every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice ordinarily speaking.

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