1817 Oct r 15

Not Paul

Ch Period before Conversion

§ 3 Cloven tongues

Add to[?] slander this about the wine: witness Paul

Wine not forbidden by Jesus

On this occasion two meetings it is true are spoken of: one at which the number present was no more than 120: the other in which it was three thousand and more or if we suppose the converts made on that occasion are supposed not to have been all present at one time an any rate some large number abundantly larger than the hundred and twenty: and it is in the first meeting at which there were but the hundred and twenty that the quasi-miracle composed of the wind and the cloven tongues is stated as having place.

But on this first occasion though ‘they were all filled with the Holy Ghost’ yet so far as regards language learning in particular nothing as here stated which has so much as the appearance of being miraculous /a miracle upon the face of it/: all they do is to ‘begin to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance II. 4: and from this commencement no sort of effect is stated as produced. An idea of communicating the inestimable gift to the Gentiles in a word to the whole world […?] the inestimable gift having been started each of them in a flow of spirits mustered up and began uttering such expressions taken from foreign tongues as it had happened to him to pick up, and there the matter ended.

At the second meeting and not before - at that meeting at which Jews from all the nations /countries/ known in /to/ Jerusalem were assembled - at that meeting and not at the first that be it is /was/ that the wonderful concert of languages is stated as having been heard.