Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 14:6

What the Ap. has said touching the criterion of edification, he applies to his own approaching visit (1 Corinthians 4:18 ff., 1 Corinthians 16:5 ff.): “But at the present time, brothers,” νῦν δέ, temporal, as in 1 Corinthians 5:11, etc.; not logical, as in 1 Corinthians 7:14; 1 Corinthians 13:13, etc. (see Hf [2030], against most interpreters). It is the situation at Cor. which gives point to this ref [2031] : what help could the Ap. bring to his readers in their troubled state, if he were to offer them nothing but confused mutterings and ravings? (cf. 1 Corinthians 14:7-11) an appeal to common sense. The hypotheses are parl [2032] (expressing by ἐὰν actual possibility, cf. 1 Corinthians 14:18; not mere conceivability) the second the negative of the first: “if I should come to you speaking with tongues, wherein shall I profit you if I do not speak in (the way of) revelation or knowledge, or prophesying or teaching?” In the four ἢ clauses, the second pair matches the first: revelation comes through the prophet, knowledge through the teacher (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:8; 1Co 12:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28, etc.). For ἔρχομαι with ptp [2033] of the character or capacity in which one comes “a (mere) speaker with tongues,” unable to interpret (see 5) cf. Acts 19:18; Matthew 11:18 f., Mark 1:39; Luke 13:7.

[2030] J. C. K. von Hofmann's Die heilige Schrift N.T. untersucht, ii. 2 (2te Auflage, 1874).

[2031] reference.

[2032] parallel.

[2033] participle

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