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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
And I can do it with my eyes closed, and even hold a conversation with someone else as I do it! (I used to do a lot of data entry.)

That is what my mom could so, at about 300 wpm i think.

Dr. Lightfoot thinks, that the Hebrew tongue, which was become a dead language, and understood but by few, is here meant,

I have Gill also, but you left out b what he said first,

...the speech of angels, when they have assumed human bodies, and have in them spoke with an audible voice, in articulate sounds; of which we have many instances, both in the Old Testament and the New, wherein they have conversed with divers persons, as Hagar, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Manoah and his wife, the Virgin Mary, Zechariah, and others; unless by the tongues of angels should be meant the most eloquent speech, and most excellent of languages; or if there can be thought to be any tongue that exceeds that of men, which, if angels spoke, they would make use of.

Regardless, i see no warrant for relegating this to known languages, which i see Paul makes distinction from.

If Paul was referencing a literal divine language, I doubt he would leave it so ambiguous, but would declare straight out that they are hearing words that are spoken in the very temple of God in heaven.

Specifying the "tongues of angels" is not ambiguous if there is such a thing. And why not?

More than likely it is simply hyperbole,

That is the only warranted alternative i see.

Can we look at a transcript of all these “Angelic tongues” being spoken and see that they are similar, in any way, and resemble a language at all?

And why would it have to? God knows what a groan is expressing. Just being objective.

88 posted on 11/15/2013 6:38:32 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212

“And why would it have to? God knows what a groan is expressing. Just being objective.”


Rom_8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

A great problem in using this verse to make sense of the babbling nature of tongue-speaking is that this is not something only promised to those who speak in tongues. This is something promised to all believers who have the Holy Spirit, who moves us to pray and gives us words to speak.

Speaking in tongues, on the other hand, is not promised to all:

1Co 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

Basically, this is like saying that only those who are given the gift of tongues have this special intercession power experience with God, or that only those who have this gift can receive the special edification that comes from it.


94 posted on 11/15/2013 8:13:30 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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