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Originally Posted by Arphaxad
a while back, but almost everyone i mentioned this to kind of pushed it aside.
ARPH  |
I know. People think on a very basic level. They read
Acts 2 and see the Apostles actually speaking in these languages. Well let's look at their logic. We see...
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, Mesopotamians, Judaeans, Cappadocians, Pontians, Asians, Phrygians, Pamphylians, Egyptians, Libyans, Cryrenians, Romans, Jews, Cretes, and Arabians.
That's 17 language groups. That would mean that out of the 120 at least a group of 7 spoke one of these languages. That means 7 spoke Parthian, 7 spoke Median, 7 spoke Elamite, etc, etc. Because one person cannot speak but one language at a time. I can't speak both English and French at the same time. And if each man shifted from one language to the other 17 times it would hardly be enough to expound upon the wonderful works of God in any intelligible fashion. Also it wouldn't have been miraculous to the hearer...the hearer would only think, "Hey, they know Parthian."
BUT...if they all realized they were each hearing every man in their own language...now that would be a miracle. I can see the Parthians looking at the Medians (and saying in the common tongue they all shared, most likely Aramaic, for they were all Jewish converts come to Pentecost festival), "Wow, those guys speak very good Parthian." Then the Medes would reply, "Wait, they weren't speaking Parthian, they were speaking Mede!" Suddenly they would be wowed by the fact that each of them are hearing the group in their own language.
Look at this verse closely folks,
"And how hear we
every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?" -
Acts 2:8
That was the miracle folks. Anyone could learn two or three languages and speak in them moving from one to another. The real issue is that the listeners each heard every man in their own tongue. Now that was a noteworthy miracle!
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