Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Corinthians 14:11
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 318, footnote 2 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
Chapter XVI.—That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians. (HTML)
... words. The apostle thus speaks: “So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue a word easy to be understood, how shall ye know what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. There are, it may be, so many kind of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.” And, “Let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.”[1 Corinthians 14:9-11]
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 319, footnote 1 (Image)
Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans
A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (HTML)
Homily LIV on Acts xxviii. 1. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1165 (In-Text, Margin)
“,” he says, “no little kindness to us—barbarians” (as they were[1 Corinthians 14:11])—“having kindled a fire:” else it were of no use that their lives be saved, if the wintry weather must destroy them. Then Paul having taken brushwood, laid it on the fire. See how active he is; observe how we nowhere find him doing miracles for the sake of doing them, but only upon emergency. Both during the storm when there was a cause he prophesied, not for the sake of prophesying, and here again in the first instance he lays on brushwood:—nothing for vain ...