单词 | to speak with a tongue |
释义 | > as lemmasto speak with a tongue (tongues) c. The knowledge or use of a language. Esp. in phrases gift of tongues, to speak with a tongue (tongues), in reference to the Pentecostal miracle and the miraculous gift in the early Church; also simply tongues (plural in collective sense). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > speaking in tongues gift of tongues1526 tongues1526 society > faith > worship > other practices > carry out other practices [verb (intransitive)] > speak with tongues to speak with a tongue (tongues)1526 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xii. 30 Do all speake with tonges? 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xiii. 8 Though that prophesyinge fayle, other tonges shall cease, or knowledge vanysshe awaye. 1526 [see sense 2a]. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 48 The halie spreit..gaif to thayme ye gift to speik with al twngis. 1538 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 144 Ioynyng wyth you Maister Mason..to declare your purpose for that having the tongue he may doo..it more fully thenne you could percace easly vtter the same. 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 3 Neither can you proue that hee had not wealth enough to serue his vses, or tongue enough in euery place of his trauell. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 75 in Wks. (1640) III Their..bright Stone, that brings Invisibilitie, and strength, and tongues. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. v. 96 The glossolalia, or ‘speaking with a tongue’, is connected with ‘prophesying’—that is, exalted preaching. 1965 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 5 Dec. 31/5 Some parishioners have complained to the Diocesan authorities..about Mr. Schofield's interest in speaking with tongues. 1972 S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? v. 40 Some manifestation, usually tongues, is generally expected; indeed, strict Pentecostals demand it. 1976 Church Times 5 Mar. 14/2 Tongues is a personal and devotional gift as opposed to the others, which are intended to help people. < as lemmas |
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