Jubilation And Speaking In Tongues

Both the tongues or glossolalia of the New Testament and the jubilation of tradition were wordless sounds. Both were a response, an entering into the gospel in ways deeper than conceptual language would allow. There is every reason to assume that jubilation and tongues-ancient and modern-refer to the same phenomenon. A question arises whether the tongues of Scripture, the tongues of present-day charismatic renewal, and the jubilation tradition are in fact the same experience. Was jubilation the same as glossolalia, a continuation of the tongues of the New Testament? Tongues in the New Testament The issue of New Testament glossolalia has been dealt with by a number of biblical scholars. In general, most do not consider the glossolalia of the New Testament to be foreign languages but, rather,"ecstatic utterance," a speaking forth of wordless sounds as an expression of spiritual fervor. Richard Kugelman writes: The gift of tongues was an extraordinary manifestation of the Spirit's pr…