According to Henry they had a reason to be skeptical as they might not know (as the others did) that the languages were actual languages and not mere gibberish. However, this does not explain why the awe and ecstasy of those whom DID know--from all known parts of the world over what could only be the most significant supernatural event ever witnessed by a multitude of Nations--would die unexpressed and unrecorded? One would think that most of them, on returning to their various homes throughout the known world, would speak and write of these supernatural events such as the world had never ever dreamed of.
But your only response (the only one available to you) is the careless and clumsy remark that "Still no reason for any non-Christian historian to take note."--LOL!--as though supernatural language acquisition by the ignorant being witnessed by travellers from a multitude of Nations is only of interest to Christians! Sigh...
"How was your trip, Polodorus? Did anything interesting happen?"
"Not really. The disciples of the Christ all became instantly fluent in all the languages of the world in order that they can convert others to their Christ. I was in ecstasy and awe at the time but can you pass the chicken, please?"
"Will you be out, later?"
"For a little bit. I am off to the park with Solonius. We are going to write an acount of the foot-race between Eurobis and Phylos"
"The scorn which some made of it who were natives of Judea and Jerusalem, probably the scribes and Pharisees, and chief priests, who always resisted the Holy Ghost; they said, These men are full of new wine, or sweet wine; they have drunk too much this festival-time, v. 13. Not that they were so absurd as to think that wine in the head would enable men to speak languages which they never learned; but these, being native Jews, knew not, as the others did, that what was spoken was really the languages of other nations, and therefore took it to be gibberish and nonsense, such as drunkards" |
