1 Corinthians 14:10
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tam multa, ut puta genera linguarum sunt in hoc mundo : et nihil sine voce est.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- τοσαῦτα εἰ τύχοι γένη φωνῶν εἰσιν ἐν κόσμῳ, καὶ οὐδὲν ἄφωνον·
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XVI. That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians
And barbarians were inventors not only of philosophy, but almost of every art. The Egyptians were the first to introduce astrology among men. Similarly also the Chaldeans. The Egyptians first showed how to burn lamps, and divided the year into twelve months, prohibited intercourse with women in the temples, and enacted that no one should enter the temples from a woman without bathing. Again, they were the inventors of geometry. There are some who say that the Carians invented prognostication by the stars. The Phrygians were the first who attended to the flight of birds. And the Tuscans, neighbours of Italy, were adepts at the art of the Haruspex. The Isaurians and the Arabians invented augury, as the Telmesians divination by dreams. The Etruscans invented the trumpet, and the Phrygians the flute. For Olympus and Marsyas were Phrygians. …
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XXXV
Ver. 10 . “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification:” i.e., so many tongues, so many voices of Scythians, Thracians, Romans, Persians, Moors, Indians, Egyptians, innumerable other nations.