the gift of tongues

the gift of tongues

The ability to speak foreign languages one has never learned, one of the miracles of the Holy Spirit. The Vatican is sending a team of priests fluent in over 30 languages to investigate whether a woman truly has the gift of tongues.See also: gift, of, tongue

the gift of tongues

the power of speaking in unknown languages, regarded as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. When the disciples of Jesus were filled with the Holy Spirit after Pentecost (Acts 2:1–4), the gift of tongues was one of the ways in which this phenomenon manifested itself; compare with speak in tongues (at speak).See also: gift, of, tongue