1 Corinthians 14:27

But if there be no interpreter,.... None that has the gift of interpretation of divers tongues, and he that speaks with them has not that, which was sometimes the case:

let him keep silence in the…

Let it be by two, or at the most by three - That is, two, or at most three in one day, or in one meeting. So Grotius, Rosenmuller, Doddridge, Bloomfield, and Locke, understand it. It is probable that…

Speak in an unknown tongue - The Hebrew, as has already been conjectured.

Let it be by two; or at the most by three, and that by course - Let only two or three in one assembly act in this way, that…

In this passage the apostle reproves them for their disorder, and endeavours to correct and regulate their conduct for the future.

I. He blames them for the confusion they introduced into the…

let it be by two, or at the most by three Because the long utterance in an unknown tongue would weary the Church without a sufficient corresponding benefit.

and that by course Literally, and in…