Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Par conséquent, les langues sont un signe, non pour les croyants, mais pour les non-croyants; la prophétie, au contraire, est un signe, non pour les non-croyants, mais pour les croyants.
KJV
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
aith even by miracles than that they should remain altogether in their unbelief. For it is written ( 1 Cor. 14:22 ) that signs are given "to unbelievers," viz. that they may be converted to the faith. Whether Christ worked miracles by Divine power? Objection 1: It would seem that…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)
s [Col. 0129D] loquitur; quia signa, sicut ait Apostolus, non fidelibus, sed infidelibus sunt data (I Cor. XIV, 22) . Utrisque tamen de coelo reseratur, ut ad coelestem coelestia jam coelestes credendo rerum praesagia firmius invitarent. Fertur autem, ut dixi, haec stella sidere…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)
itatis ex proventu. Hinc plane Apostolus: Signa, inquit, non fidelibus, sed infidelibus, data sunt (I Cor. XIV, 22) , quatenus per ea in eis fides nasceretur; fide vero percepta, potestas adoptionis daretur. [Col. 0412A] Potestate siquidem fidei mala fugarentur, et diabolus vin…
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