Interpretation
 

Anybody have any knowledge of "meturgeman" I probably hacked up that spelling I don't have the book in front of me. I'll bring it tomorrow......anyhoo


Something about when ancient Hebrew was read in the synagogue there was an interpreter. Most did not know the ancient holy language. Anybody?????

Go to JewishEncyclopedia.com:

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi...d=523&letter=M

thanks Chan.

This is what I said.

Anyone care to comment on how this corresponds with the tongues that are mentioned in 1st Corin. I'll get deeper after lunch.

1Corinthians 14:5 for example.

I would that ye all speak with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for gre4ater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.


Wasn't it Judaic custom to read from the holy script? Was everyone able to understand? Not hardly. But the meturgeman interpreted the tongue so that the unlearned could receive edification.

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In looking at the Mishnah, the Talmud, and various other Jewish writings, the notion that the tongues of 1st Corin. could have actually been the use or misuse of the Hebrew language, becomes plausible.

For instance lets compare:

Christain Text: 1st Corin. 14:9-10. So likewise ye except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? Foe ye shall speak into the air. There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signifigance.


Jewish Text:

Massech Sopherim, cap. I. hal. 6 If any write the holy books in any language, or in any character, yet he shall not read in them (publicly in the synagogue) unless they be written in Hebrew.


These thought are taken from a book called Mystery at Corinth.

Peter spoke to the crowd in Acts 2 in a language they all understood not in other tongues. Did anyone in the book of Acts teach or preach in tongues? No!

Finally.....thankyou

Humor me and lets stay in Corinth.

Is it possible that the new radical church was torn between new religion and Judaic customs?

Was there a such thing as the Holy tongue in the synagogue?

Wasn't this "holy language" a problem in the church at Corinth?