Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
What is it then?—What is my determination thereupon?
and—rather as Greek, "but"; I will not only pray with my spirit, which (I Corinthians 14:14) might leave the understanding unedified, BUT with the understanding also [ALFORD and ELLICOTT].
pray with the understanding also—and, by inference, I will keep silence altogether if I cannot pray with the understanding (so as to make myself understood by others). A prescient warning, mutatis mutandis, against the Roman and Greek practice of keeping liturgies in dead languages, which long since have become unintelligible to the masses; though their forefathers spoke them at a time when those liturgies were framed for general use.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 14:15:
Psalms 33:1-3
1 Corinthians 14:26
Ephesians 5:19
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