Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

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4.Joseph Henry Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (New York: American Book, 1886), p. 153. 5. Fee, The First Epistle, p. 655. 6. F. W. Grosheide, Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1953), p. 316. 7. Martin, Spirit and Congregation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984), p. 61. 8. Jack Hayford's book The Beauty of Spir itual Language is the best on tongues that I know of. 9. 1 Corinthians 13:1 intimates that there are tongues "of angels," suggesting the possi bility that the early Church considered some prayer languages to be angelic languages. 10. Forbes suggests the five main options: 1) the miraculous ability to speak unlearned human languages; 2) the miraculous ability to speak heavenly or angelic languages; 3) some combination of 1 and 2; 4) a kind of sub- or prelin guistic form of speech or a kind of coded utter ance; or 5) an archaic or idiosyncratic language. Prophecy and Inspired Speech, pp. 56-65. 11.Marion Meloon, Ivan Spencer: Willow in the Wind (Plainfield, N.J.: Logos, 1974), p. 210. 12. Dennis J. Bennett, "The Gifts of the Holy Spirit," Michael P. Hamilton, ed., The Charis matic Movement (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), p. 27. 13. For documented accounts of utterances by the Spirit, see Ralph W. Harris, Spoken by the Spirit (Springfield, Mo.: Gospel Publishing, 1973). 14. Hayford, Spiritual Language, p. 138. 15. The theme of 1 Corinthians 14 is edifi cation, mentioned seven times; the Greek verb three times: l4:4a, 46, 176; and the noun four times: 14:3, 5d, 126, 26c. 16.Usually to a special-language audience or person, so the tongue given acts as a super natural sign. 17.David Hill calls this verse "the nearest approach in Paul's letters to a definition of prophetic function. . . ." (New Testament Prophecy, p. 123). Jannes Reiling says, "There is no other statement in the New Testament which comes closer to a definition than this." "Prophecy, the Spirit and the Church," Pro phetic Vocation, p. 69. 18. Theodore M. Crone, Early Christian Prophecy: A Study of Its Origin and Function (Baltimore: St. Mary's University, 1973), p. 213. 19. Clifford Hill, Prophecy, p. 212. • 400

20. Edouard Cothenet, "Les prophetes Chretiens comme Exegetes Charismatiques de L'Ecriture," Prophetic Vocation, p. 79. 21. Kistemaker, I Corinthians, p. 478. 22. Barrett says: "Not 'the church', for ekklesian does not have the article; literally an assembly, but the sense is the assembly of which he is one member; ekklesia in the sense of assem bly is frequent in this chapter." First Epistle to the Corinthians, p. 316. 23. Clifford Hill, Prophecy, p. 213. 24. Thomas W. Gillespie, The First Theolo gians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), p. 148. 25. Fee, The First Epistle, p. 659. 26. Grosheide, First Epistle to the Cor inthians, p. 319. 27. Kistemaker, I Corinthians, p. 485. 28. Unprovable, but a point that seems jus tified in terms of 12:1, 3 and the entire context. 29. Kistemaker comments: "In this passage . . . the inability to understand a spoken lan guage, not an inability to understand the Chris tian faith, is at issue." I Corinthians, p. 493. 30. Fee, The First Epistle, p. 672. Note these references: Deuteronomy 27:26; 1 Chronicles 16:36; Nehemiah 5:13; 8:6; Psalm 106:48; Rev elation 5:14; 7:12; 19:4. Justin,Apology I. 65:3; 67:5. 31. Some commentators suggest that these people would be catechumens or candidates to be accepted into the Church. I find nothing cred ible to substantiate this. 32. Translated variously as "uninformed" (NKJV), "ungifted" (NASE), "ordinary man" (TEV), "those who don't understand" (LB), "uninstructed man" (Phillips), "outsider" (RSV), "the plain man" (NEB), "the uninitiated" (Knox), "the simple learner" or "listener" (C. K. Barrett). 33. Bauer, Walter, trans., W. F. Arndt and F. W. Gingrich, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Chris tian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1957), p. 371. 34. "The law," nomos, to which Paul was appealing, applies here to the Old Testament generally, as in John 10:34; 12:34; 15:25; Romans 3:19. 35. Barrett, First Epistle to the Corinthians, pp. 322-323. 36. The unbelievers in Corinth, for instance, did not reject the Gospel in the same way the Jews (in Isaiah 28:11) rejected their Hebrew prophets. 37. Wayne A. Grudem, "1 Corinthians 14:20-25: Prophecy and Tongues as Signs of