{"id":11817,"date":"2022-10-16T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2022-10-02T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:30:11","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-tongues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11817","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Porphyrios on Tongues\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3qmdm\" data-offset-key=\"62qqc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"62qqc-0-0\">\u201cWhereas Peter the apostle was speaking his own tongue, the language was instantaneously transformed in the mind of the hearers. In<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3qmdm\" data-offset-key=\"btt3f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"btt3f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"btt3f-0-0\">an ineffable way the Holy Spirit made them understand his words in\u00a0<\/span>their language, mystically, imperceptibly. These miraculous things<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3qmdm\" data-offset-key=\"5ba4d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5ba4d-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5ba4d-0-0\">happen through the action of the Holy Spirit\u2026\u2018house\u2019 would be heard by the person who spoke French as \u2018maison. It was a kind of gift of clear sight; they heard their own language. The sound struck their ears but in their minds, through divine illumina<\/span>tion, the words were heard in their own tongue. The Church Fathers don\u2019t reveal this interpretation of Pentecost very clearly, they aren&#8217;t afraid of distorting the mystery. The same is true of the Revelation of Saint John. The uninitiated are unable to comprehend the meaning of the mystery of God.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3qmdm\" data-offset-key=\"e608s-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e608s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e608s-0-0\">&#8211; Wounded by Love<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e608s-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11818\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4056f70b919e4a4f96457dde379703ef-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4056f70b919e4a4f96457dde379703ef-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4056f70b919e4a4f96457dde379703ef-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4056f70b919e4a4f96457dde379703ef-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4056f70b919e4a4f96457dde379703ef-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhereas Peter the apostle was speaking his own tongue, the language was instantaneously transformed in the mind of the hearers. In an ineffable way the Holy Spirit made them understand [&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-11817","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\/11817","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=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11819,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/11819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}