Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bill Ross" <BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com>]

<Ben > 
>>If Isaiah's hearers would not believe what he told them in simple
language,
then they would be told in a foreign language which they did not know:
the
Babylonian language.

<Jeff>
>>I see this to hold true to context as well, but then I wonder, how in
the world did Paul come up with what his application in 1 Corinthians
14:21?  Was that fanciful re-interpretation?  Was a perversion from the
LXX?  Sometimes I am really amazed at the ways that scriptures from the
Tanach are applied in the NT.

<Bill>
The application Paul makes is that foreign languages are for a sign to
unbelievers - isn't that exactly what you both concur Isaiah was saying?

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1 Cor 14:21-22:

In the law it is written:

"With men of other tongues and other lips
will I speak unto this people; 
and yet for all that
will they not hear me, 
saith the Lord."

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them
that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not,
but for them which believe.

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Bill Ross