{"id":11329,"date":"2022-06-12T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11329"},"modified":"2022-06-02T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:05:19","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11329","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Porphyrios on Tongues\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas Peter the apostle was speaking his own tongue, the lan-<\/p>\n<p>guage was instantaneously transformed in the mind of the hearers. In<\/p>\n<p>an ineffable way the Holy Spirit made them understand his words in<\/p>\n<p>their language, mystically, imperceptibly. These miraculous things<\/p>\n<p>happen through the action of the Holy Spirit\u2026\u2018house\u2019 would be heard by the person who spoke French as \u2018maison. It<\/p>\n<p>was a kind of gift of clear sight; they heard their own language. The<\/p>\n<p>sound struck their ears, but in their minds, through divine illumina-<\/p>\n<p>tion, the words were heard in their own tongue. The Church Fathers<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t reveal this interpretation of Pentecost very clearly, they are&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>afraid of distorting the mystery. The same is true of the Revelation of<\/p>\n<p>Saint John. The uninitiated are unable to comprehend the meaning of J<\/p>\n<p>the mystery of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wounded by Love<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11330\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/thdsdsd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cWhereas Peter the apostle was speaking his own tongue, the lan- guage was instantaneously transformed in the mind of the hearers. In an ineffable way the Holy Spirit made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11331,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions\/11331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}