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Language

Of all mankind one at first—Ge 11:1,6

CALLED

• Speech
• —Mr 14:70; Ac 14:11
• Tongue
• —Ac 1:19; Re 5:9

CONFUSION OF

• A punishment for presumption, &c
• —Ge 11:2-6
• Originated the varieties in
• —Ge 11:7
• Scattered men over the earth
• —Ge 11:8,9
• Divided men into separated nations
• —Ge 10:5,20,31

Great variety of, spoken by men—1Co 14:10

Ancient kingdoms often comprehended nations of different—Es 1:22; Da 3:4; 6:25

KINDS OF, MENTIONED

• Hebrew
• —2Ki 18:28; Ac 26:14
• Chaldea
• —Da 1:4
• Syriack
• —2Ki 18:26; Ezr 4:7
• Greek
• —Ac 21:37
• Latin
• —Lu 23:38
• Lycaonian
• —Ac 14:11
• Arabic, &c
• —Ac 2:11
• Egyptian
• —Ps 84:5; 114:1; Ac 2:10

Of some nations difficult—Eze 3:5,6

The term barbarian applied to those who spoke a strange—1Co 14:11

POWER OF SPEAKING DIFFERENT

• A gift of the Holy Spirit
• —1Co 12:10
• Promised
• —Mr 16:17
• Given on the day of Pentecost
• —Ac 2:3,4
• Followed receiving the gospel
• —Ac 10:44-46
• Conferred by laying on of the apostles' hands
• —Ac 8:17,18; 19:6
• Necessary to spread of the gospel
• —Ac 2:7-11
• A sign to unbelievers
• —1Co 14:22
• Sometimes abused
• —1Co 14:2-12,23
• Ceased when the written Bible completed
• —1Co 13:8-10

INTERPRETATION OF

• Antiquity of engaging persons for
• —Ge 42:23
• A gift of the Holy Spirit
• —1Co 12:10
• Most important in the early church
• —1Co 14:5,13,27,28
• The Jews punished by being given up to people of a strange
• —De 28:49; Isa 28:11; Jer 5:15