Is an ecstatic utterance speaking in a tongue?

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What’s Your Question? for Feb. 23, 2011

The Holy Spirit defined speaking in a tongue. He said the apostles spoke in “tongues” (Acts 2: 4,11), and people heard in their own “languages” (vs. 6,8). Translators of the King James Version inserted the word “unknown,” in italics in 1 Cor. 14:2,4,13,14,19,27, because it is not in the Greek text. They intended to indicate it was unknown to the speakers – not to the hearers. Those who heard understood (Acts 2:8). More recent translations have omitted the word “unknown” in 1 Cor. 14. When Paul quoted Isaiah 28:11,12, “men of other tongues” (1 Cor. 14:21), he was referring to the Assyrian captivity of Israel. Jabbering is not speaking in a tongue, and no one today has the power to speak in a language that he has not learned. Prophecy, miraculous knowledge and tongues ceased (1 Cor. 13:8).