1 Corinthians 14:26 - Exposition

How is it then? The same phrase as in 1 Corinthians 14:15 . Every one of you hath a psalm, etc. We see here a somewhat melancholy picture of the struggling self assertion of rival claimants to attention. A doctrine; rather, a teaching, The glossolaly had probably been promoted by Syrian enthusiasts, perhaps of the Petrine party; the egotism of oratory and itch of teaching now described ( James 3:1 ) may have been developed in the Apollonian party. Unto edifying. The object is moral improvement, not idle self display, not the ostentation of individual gifts ( 1 Corinthians 12:7 , 1 Corinthians 12:8 , 1 Corinthians 12:10 ). To this he recurs again and again ( 1 Corinthians 3:9 ; 1 Corinthians 14:3 , 1 Corinthians 14:5 , 1 Corinthians 14:12 ; 2 Corinthians 5:1 ; 2 Corinthians 10:8 ; 2 Corinthians 11:19 ; 2 Corinthians 13:10 ; and the verb frequently). The substantive, as used by St. Paul, only occurs again in Romans ( Romans 14:19 ; Romans 15:2 ), and in Ephesians ( Ephesians 2:21 , etc.).