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JACK: Inspired hindsight. Those are your words, not mine (I think), and I like them immensely. I almost wonder whether the Fourth Gospel places so much emphasis upon Jesus precisely because (persecuted) people wanted to know what would happen. But it was Jesus\u2019 future that mattered, not ours, so the Spirit would lead them not into the truth of our future but the truth of Jesus\u2019 future. I think perhaps nowadays we fail to see how preoccupied the Spirit is with Jesus.<\/p>\n

BEN: I entirely agree with you that Acts 2 is not about glossolalia as traditionally defined, or ironically Pentecost is not about what moderns call a Pentecostal<\/a> experience. No, the grammar is pretty clear (\u2018we heard them speaking in our own tongues\u2019) it is about what my Greek students regularly pray for\u2014 \u2018dear Lord please let me miraculous be able to know and speak in this foreign language\u2019. I do think however Paul is talking about speaking in angelic tongues in 1 Corinthians. Would you agree?<\/p>\n

JACK: Yes. Paul is describing something different. Frankly, and I am being incautious here, I think Paul would have been happy never to mention speaking in tongues<\/a>, or glossolalia. But the Corinthians made such a muck of it that he had to. Speaking in tongues is not mentioned in the list of spiritual gifts in Romans 12. This is instructive. I think he had to clean up the mess in Corinth\u2014but did so reluctantly. (By the way, I wrote the entry on glossolalia in the New Interpreter\u2019s Dictionary of the Bible,<\/em> and I deal with some of this there.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"