Lesson 37 Amplified – GLOSSA

 

GLOSSA -- GLOSSAI

American singular: a tongue, a language -- plural: tongues, languages 

These Greek words are preamble to what occurred on the Day of Pentecost after our Lord Jesus, the Christos [Mashiyach], arose from death. 

Almost Greek: [Words in italics are translator’s additions.] 

Acts 2: Now, in the fulfilling of the Day of Pentekostes [Hebrew Feast of Pentecost], they were all unanimous at the same place. Unexpectedly emergent from the ouranou [the heavens, the sky, aloft] was an echos [loud noise], just as borne of a violent wind, and filled up the whole dwelling where they were sitting. Themselves stared wide-eyed at thoroughly partitioned tongues as of fire. It also sat upon each one of them and they were all filled of the Hagios Pneuma and began to utter words in different glossais, just as the Pneuma gave to them to enunciate. 

Acts 2.5: Now, there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, pious [devout] men from every ethnous [nation, race, non-Jews, Gentiles] of those under the ouranon. Now, these phones [sounds, tones, noises, voices] being generated, the populace assembled and were confused because each one heard them speaking his own dialekto [language, dialect]. Now, all were amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "LO! aren’t all these speaking Galileans? and how hear we each our own dialekto in which we were born: Parthians, Medes, Elamites and those inhabiting Mesopotamia; both Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions of Libya over against Cyrene and alien-resident Romans; both Jews and proselutoi [non-Jewish converts to Judaism], Cretans and Arabians. We hear them in our own glossais articulating the magnificence of Theos.” 

1st Corinthians 12.4: There are varieties of charismaton [gifts, endowments, faculties], but the selfsame Hagios Pneuma. There are varieties of service, yet the selfsame Kurios. There are varieties of effects, and the selfsame Theos is active in the whole of existence; in all. To each one is given the exhibition of the Hagios Pneuma to bear together [for the common good]. For (via the Hagios Pneuma) one is given a logos [word] of wisdom; to another, a logos of knowledge (down from the selfsame Hagios Pneuma); to another, pistis (by the selfsame Hagios Pneuma); to another, charismata [gifts, endowments, faculties, deliverances] of healing (by the selfsame Hagios Pneuma); to another, effect of dunameon [force, power]; to another, propheteia [inspired speech, prophesy]; to another, discerning of pneumaton [spirits]; to another, kin [families] of glossai; to another, translation of glossai. In all of these, One and the same Hagios Pneuma is active, separately apportioning to each as He [Father] bouletan [wills, resolves, intends]. 

1st Corinthians 14: Pursue agapen [unconditional love]! Crave the spiritual and even more in order that you may propheteuete [before tell, speak under inspiration, prophesy]. For he, speaking in a glosse, not speaks to men; conversely, to Theos. For no man spiritually hears but he speaks musterion [secrets, mysteries]. But the one propheteuon speaks to men for building up, paraklesin [imploration, urging, exhortation, encouragement, solace] and consolation. The one speaking in a glosse builds up himself but the one propheteuon builds up an ekklesian [assembly, church]. I desire that all of you speak in glossais but even more, that you may propheteuete. For the one propheteuon is greater than him speaking in glossais (unless he thoroughly interprets his utterance) in order that the ekklesia may receive up building. But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in glossais, how will I be opheleso [useful] to you, except I speak to you either in revelation or in knowledge or in propheteia or in teaching? Now, apsuchos [lifeless, dead, inanimate] instruments giving phone [sound, tone, noise, voice] (whether pipe or lyre), if they don’t give a variety of utterance, how will the tune being piped, or the music being strummed, be known? For if a bugle gives an indistinct phone, who will ready himself for battle? So also, if you give (via glosses) not-clear logos, how will the word being said be known, for you will be speaking into air. So many effective kinds of phonon are in the kosmo universe, world, cosmos] and not even one is aphonos [voiceless, mute]. If then I not know the dunamin of the phones, I will be a barbaros [foreigner, non-Greek, barbarian] to the one speaking and he (speaking) will be a barbaros to me. So also, you, since you are zelotai [zealous ones, zealots] of the spiritual to the building up of the ekklesias, seek interpretation in order that you may superabound. Therefore, let him, speaking in a glosse, proseuchestho [humbly beg God, pray] in order that he may be able to dierueneue [thoroughly explain, interpret]. For if I proseuchomai in a glosse, my pneumati proseuxomai [worships, as a dog licks his master's hand] but my nous [intellect, mind, understanding] is empty. Then what is to be? I will proseuxomai with the [my] pneumati and I will also proseuxomai with the [my] nous. I sing with the [my] pneumati and I also sing with the [my] nous. If you eulogeses [speak well of, praise, bless] in the pneumati, how will the one occupying the position of the idiotes [know-nothing, ignoramus] say the “Amen” to your eucharistia [gratefully giving thanks], since he not knows what you say? Indeed, you echaristeis well but the other isn’t built up. I echaristo [gratefully give thanks] to my Theos for I speak in glossais more than all of you. Conversely, in an ekklesia, I determine rather to speak five logoi with my nous in order that I may also instruct others than murioi [10,000; innumerable, myriads] of logoi in glosse. 

End of Thirty-seventh Lesson