1Cor 14:21 | JFB | STEP | 21. In the law-- as the whole Old Testament is called, being all of it the law of God. Compare the citation of the Psalms as the "law," . Here the quotation is from , , where God virtually says of Israel, This people hear Me not, though I speak to. them in the language with which they are familiar; I will therefore speak to them in other tongues, namely, those of the foes whom I will send against them; but even then they will not hearken to Me; which Paul thus applies, Ye see that it is a penalty to be associated with men of a strange tongue, yet ye impose this on the Church [Grotius]; they who speak in foreign tongues are like "children" just "weaned from the milk" ( ), "with stammering lips" speaking unintelligibly to the hearers, appearing ridiculous ( ), or as babbling drunkards ( ), or madmen ( ).

‏ 1 Corinthians 14:21

21. In the law--as the whole Old Testament is called, being all of it the law of God. Compare the citation of the Psalms as the "law," Joh 10:34. Here the quotation is from Is 28:11, 12, where God virtually says of Israel, This people hear Me not, though I speak to. them in the language with which they are familiar; I will therefore speak to them in other tongues, namely, those of the foes whom I will send against them; but even then they will not hearken to Me; which Paul thus applies, Ye see that it is a penalty to be associated with men of a strange tongue, yet ye impose this on the Church [Grotius]; they who speak in foreign tongues are like "children" just "weaned from the milk" (Is 28:9), "with stammering lips" speaking unintelligibly to the hearers, appearing ridiculous (Is 28:14), or as babbling drunkards (Ac 2:13), or madmen (1Co 14:23).