 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 pages
...attention to the reading of sermons is not easily secured. It is far better to say with Paul : — " I had rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." Doubtlessmany will say, " It would be utterly impossible for me to preach to my sailors." To begin... | |
 | John Leland - Bible - 1837 - 524 pages
...spirit, that my meaning may be understood by others. And accordingly he adds, ver. 19, ' In the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.' And what he means by speaking ' with his understanding' he explains in the words immediately following,... | |
 | John Leland - Bible - 1837 - 532 pages
...spirit, that my meaning may be understood by others. And accordingly he adds, ver. 19, ' In the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.' And what he means by speaking ' with his understanding' he explains in the words immediately following,... | |
 | Samuel Willard - Animals - 1839 - 194 pages
...or the Improved Reader } intended as a sequel to the Franklin Primer, by a Friend of Youth. 'twould rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.' — PAUL." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An act for the... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1841 - 602 pages
...the vicar was soon afterwards decided. Having happened to quote, in his defence, the words of Paul, " I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand in an unknown tongue," he was asked where he found that ? " In my hook whilk is in my sleeve," answered... | |
 | Johannes Ronge - German Catholicism - 1845 - 196 pages
...constraint which outrages the clearest injunctions of the Gospel; for Paul says, (1st Cor. 14, 19,) ' I had rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue,' and in the 23d verse he justly and directly denounces as madness the use of a foreign and unknown langua-ge.... | |
 | Andrew Brooke Clarke - 1848 - 80 pages
...11, 15, 16, 19.* 5. Quote some of the words of St. Paul against this practice ? — " In the Church, I had rather speak five words with my understanding, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." Verse 1 9. 6. Does he not also say they are vain and unprofitable ? — Yes ; " For how shall theunlearned... | |
 | Athanase Coquerel - Christian education - 1851 - 172 pages
...of the unlearned say, Amen, at the giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest. I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." (1 Cor. xiv. 6, 14, 16, 19.) 2d. Invocation of the saints and angels. " It is written, thou shalt worship... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - Education - 1852 - 406 pages
...teach classes to read understandingly, than it is to render them skillful pronouncers of words. '' I had rather speak five words with my understanding...* * than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue," says the teacher Paul. Yet nine-tenths of the children in this state, merely to gratify a longing after... | |
 | Christian - 1853 - 518 pages
...Young Christian's Sunday Evenings." necessity of praying in a language which the people understand. He says, "I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue;" and in the same chapter he says, " I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding... | |
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I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 
