A Historical Record of Speaking in Tongues (Glossolalia)
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Book ID: 425 Page: 18
Section: 2A4
Because Catholic Bishops believed in and taught Ignatius’ Nicolaitan Monarchial Bishop doctrine and the priesthood of only certain believers, they did everything they could to stop any movement of the Spirit of God in their services. They did not want anyone standing up and saying: “Thus saith the Lord,” and thereby defy their absolute authority over the church, as Montanus and his followers had done. After all, when Ignatius or any other Catholic Bishop claimed that their authority over the Church is the same as God’s authority over the Church, they certainly did not want God or anyone God was using to contradict anything they said or taught.Therefore, these Catholic Bishop were afraid of the Gifts of the Spirit. So, what did they do to stop it? The first thing they did was to forbid it by claiming it was of the devil! The second thing they did was to take away the liberty and joy of spontaneous emotional worship, and replace it with the ritual and ceremony of the Mass! They obviously realized that the Gifts of the Spirit usually moved on the people, when they were pouring out their hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ in love in verbal worship!
Quote ID: 8658
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 425 Page: 23
Section: 2D3B
200 AD, Clement of Alexandria: Glossolalia Branded as Heresy by Catholic Bishops: Many Catholic bishops of that day, and before that time, were terrified of the gifts of the Spirit, and claimed only heretics speak in tongues. As a result of this teaching, and other false doctrines of Catholicism, the Spirit of God left them. So, naturally they branded all Jesus’ name Pentecostal people as heretics. According to Blunt, Clement claimed that the Catholic Fathers gave it [speaking in tongues] as the mark of the false prophets that they spoke in an ecstasy. {53}[Footnote 53] - Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought, pg 338.
Quote ID: 8661
Time Periods: 23
Book ID: 425 Page: 24
Section: 2D3B
Origen preserving Celsus’ discourse wrote:Celsus promises to give an account of the manner in which prophecies are delivered in Phoenicia and Palestine, speaking as though it were a matter with which he had a full and personal acquaintance, let us see what he has to say on the subject.... ‘There are many,’ he says, ‘who, although of no name, with the greatest facility [ability] and on the slightest occasion... [prophesied as God’s Spirit spoke through them saying]:
‘I am God; I am the Son of God; or, I am the Divine Spirit; I have come because the world is perishing, and you, O men, are perishing for your iniquities. But I wish to save you, and you shall see Me returning again with heavenly power. Blessed is he who now does Me homage [that is, believes in and serve Me]. On all the rest I will send down eternal fire, both on cities and on countries.... Those who are faithful to me I will preserve eternally.’ Then he goes on to say: ‘To these promises are added strange, fanatical, and quite unintelligible words, of which no rational person can find the meaning. {62}
[Footnote 62] - Ante Nicene Fathers, vol 4, Origen Against Celsus, bk 7, chp 9, pg 1265.
Quote ID: 8662
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 425 Page: 26/27
Section: 2D3B
390 AD, Catholic Patriarch John Chrysostom: Glossolalia Had Ceased in Catholicism: This Catholic Priest moaned the fact that the gifts of the Spirit were no longer in operation in the Catholic Church. It was nothing more than a memory. He evidently accepted the literal interpretation of Acts 2:1-4 that the Holy Ghost was given with the Biblical evidence of speaking in tongues. In his exposition of 1 Corinthians 12:1-7, he declared:‘Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant....’ This whole passage is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their cessation [referring to the Gifts of the Spirit], being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place. And why do they not happen now? Why look now, the cause too of the obscurity hath produced us again another question: namely, why did they then happen, and now do so no more? This however let us defer to another time, but for the present let us state what things were occurring then. Well: what did happen then? Whoever was baptized he straightway spake with tongues....
They at once on their baptism received the Spirit, yet the Spirit they saw not, for it is invisible; therefore God’s grace bestowed some sensible proof of that energy. And one straightway spake in the Persian, another in the Roman, another in the Indian, another in some other such tongue: and this made manifest to them that were without that it is the Spirit in the very person speaking. Wherefore also he so calls it, saying, ‘But to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given to profit withal. Chrysostom commenting on verse 7 said that Paul: called: The gifts ‘a manifestation of the Spirit.’ For as the Apostles themselves had received this sign first, so also the faithful went on receiving it, I mean, the gift of tongues. {71}
[Footnote 71] - Nicene & Post Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol 12, Chrysostom, 1 Corinthians, Homily 29, pp 389, 390.
Quote ID: 8663
Time Periods: 45
Book ID: 425 Page: 27
Section: 2D3B
Augustine in his Homilies on the First Epistle of John, like Chrysostom, accepted the literal sense of Acts 2:1-4, 10:44-48, and 19:1-5, as the fulfillment of Isa 28:9-12. He believed: “speaking in tongues was the evidence of being born again, for those who were in the early Church.” He believed that this sign was done away in the Catholic Church. Therefore, he told his people that the fruit of the Spirit, especially love is now the evidence of being born of the Spirit. Augustine proclaimed:In the earliest times, ‘the Holy Ghost fell upon them that believed: and they spake with tongues,’ which they had not learned, ‘as the Spirit gave them utterance.’ These were signs adapted to the time.... That thing was done for a betokening, and it passed away. In the laying on of hands now, that persons may receive the Holy Ghost, do we look that they should speak with tongues...? If then the witness of the presence of the Holy Ghost be not now given through these miracles, by what is it given, by what does one get to know that he has received the Holy Ghost? Let him question his own heart. If he loves his brother the Spirit of God dwelleth in him. {72}
[Footnote 72] - Ib., Series 1, vol 7, Augustine, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, # 6, sec 10, pp 992-993.
It is very obvious that Augustin anticipated a negative reply to his question! Augustine writing against the Donatist, on baptism wrote:
We are right in understanding that the Holy Spirit may be said not to be received except in the Catholic Church. For the Holy Spirit is not only given by the laying on of hands amid the testimony of temporal sensible miracles [meaning speaking in tongues], as He was given in former days to be the credentials of a rudimentary faith, and for the extension of the first beginnings of the Church. For who expects in these days that those on whom hands are laid that they may receive the Holy Spirit should forthwith begin to speak with tongues? {73}
[Footnote 73] - Ib., Series 1, vol 4, Augustine, On Baptism, bk 3, chp 16, sec 21, pg 833.
Quote ID: 8664
Time Periods: 45
Book ID: 425 Page: 28
Section: 2D3A,2D3B
AD 395, Catholic Bishop Jerome: Glossolalia Ceased in Catholicism, But Reveals the Oneness Montanists Still Practice It: According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia:----
As regards the passages brought together from the gospel of John with which a certain votary of Montanus has assailed you, passages in which our Savior promises that He will go to the Father, and that He will send the Paraclete.... The Holy Spirit came down, and the tongues of the believers were cloven, so that each spoke every language.... If, then, the apostle Peter, upon whom the Lord has founded the Church, has expressly said that the prophecy and promise of the Lord were then and there fulfilled, how can we claim another fulfillment for ourselves....{77}
[Footnote: 77] - NPNF2, Vol 6, Jerome, Letter XLI.1-3.
Quote ID: 8665
Time Periods: 45
Book ID: 425 Page: 29
Section: 2D3A
The importance of the sect [Montanism] during the early centuries may be judged by the attention it received from ancient [Catholic] Christian writers.... The energetic opposition of Pope Innocent 1 (401-417) and the laws of the Emperor Honorius 1 against [the so-called] heresy (Feb. 22, 407). {78}[Footnote 78] - New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol 9, pg 1079.
Quote ID: 8666
Time Periods: 25
Book ID: 425 Page: 34
Section: 3A2A,2D3B
The dissemination [spreading] of Anabaptismwas so broad that both Catholics and Lutherans feared the established churches would be displaced.... At the Diet of Speyer in 1529 both Catholics and Lutherans agreed to subject them to the death penalty throughout the Holy Roman Empire.... They did not burn Catholics, but they drowned [Trinitarian] Anabaptist and they beheaded and burned Anti-Trinitarians [Anabaptist] whose beliefs were repugnant to most Protestants as well as to Catholics. {102}[Footnote 102] - Hunted Heretic, Bainton, Bainton, pp 278- 279, 298.
Quote ID: 8667
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 425 Page: 35
Section: 3A2A,2D3B
The phenomenon of speaking in tongues occurred among the Huguenots of France during this period. 110 Hamilton speaking of the glossolalia of the Huguenots wrote: A group of Huguenots (French Protestants), mostly peasants, who resisted the attempts of Louis XIV’s government to convert them to Roman Catholicism. Many were imprisoned, tortured, and martyred. Observers reported tongues, uneducated peasants and young children prophesying in pure, elegant French, enthusiastic, demonstrative worship, and people ‘seized by the Spirit’. {109}[Footnote 109] - The Charismatic Movement, 1975, Hamilton, pg 75.
Quote ID: 8668
Time Periods: 7
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