ABSTRACT
The tongues at Jerusalem can be adequately explained by the cryptomnesia of the first disciples. It is implicit and sometimes explicit in the writings of many commentators that the glossolalia of Jerusalem and Corinth must have been similar and that Kegan Paul account must therefore be regarded as more accurate than St Luke’s. The orthodox view is that while tongues manifested themselves in certain churches, such as that of Corinth, these were eccentric communities affected by local conditions, and glossolalia formed no part of regular Christian worship. If the Corinthian church was unique or one of a few churches which practised glossolalia, there were good reasons. In the polyglot port city of Corinth recognizable foreign languages might emerge in glossolalia, and Jewish worshippers might share the belief of some of their countrymen that a language existed by which angels might be invoked, collected and dispersed and by which many secrets might be discovered and curious arts and sciences known.
