Verse 14
14. If I pray And do not follow with an interpretation. Spirit…
understanding The former is the religious faculty by which we commune with God; the inner and higher man; the seat of sacred emotions: the latter is the intelligence by which we know and reason about matters presented to our thought. Prayer in an unknown tongue may stir the man’s own holy emotions, but no definite ideas are conveyed to the understanding of the hearers. Perhaps his own understanding does not form any distinct and expressible ideas, so that he does not, in fact, take the precise meaning of the words he utters.
Unfruitful Productive of no distinct ideas which can be remembered and carried away by myself and others.
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