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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">Paul's Version of the Gift of Tongues.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">The apostolic gift of tongues in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+2%3A4%3B+2%3A6&amp;version=MOUNCE">Acts 2:4 and 2:6</a> is clearly that a speaker in one language was heard, and perfectly understood by people of other languages.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">"If any man speak in<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>an unknown tongue</strong>, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and&nbsp;<strong>let one interpret</strong><em><strong>.</strong></em>" (<a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/14-27.htm" style="color: #517291;">1 Cor. 14:27 KJV</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">In Acts 14, wherever Paul went to evangelize with Barnabas, Paul was the &ldquo;chief speaker.&rdquo; (<a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/14-12.htm" style="color: #517291;">Acts 14:12</a>.) </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">In Acts 16, Paul is preaching at Philippi, and is heard by a demon possessed woman known as Python. She was popular at Philippi as a soothsayer whom people paid for prophecies. Those aspiring to be kings and rulers would vie for her endorsement to gain acceptance from among the people. Large parts of Greece fell to Philip of Macedon because Philip bribed the Python priestess to prophesy he would conquer. <br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The role of Python was played by <strong>many nameless women</strong> for many centuries prior to Paul meeting her at Philippi. See below.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The Pythoness thus was a 'rock-star' -- to use a modern equivalent.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">When Paul is at Philippi, this Python priestess followed him around for many days in the city. Everywhere Paul went she proclaimed him a man of God who declared "<strong>to us a way of salvation</strong>." Her intent was obvious: this demon-possessed woman hoped many would recognize and accept Paul as God's prophet, and accept&nbsp;<strong>his plan of salvation</strong>. (She said nothing about the true Jesus, or his plan of salvation.) Paul did nothing to stop her for many days. Luke records in Acts 16:16-18:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>16</sup>And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having&nbsp;<strong>a spirit of<em>&nbsp;</em><span style="color: #ff6600;">Python</span></strong>, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying [<strong>manteuomai</strong>, "practice divination as in a 'false divination or<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>false prophet</strong>'" &nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=8I9FIrpqv0YC&amp;lpg=PA189&amp;dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&amp;pg=PA190#v=onepage&amp;q=%22spirit%20of%20python&amp;f=false" style="color: #517291;">Strongs G3132</a>. Cf. mantis = seer]</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>17</sup>she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `<strong>These men are servants of the Most High God, who&nbsp;<span data-mce-mark="1">declare to us a way of salvation</span>;'</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>18</sup>and this she was doing for&nbsp;<strong>many</strong>&nbsp;<strong>days</strong>, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ,<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>to come forth from her</strong>;' and it came forth the same hour.&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2016:16-18&amp;version=YLT" style="color: #517291;">Acts 16:16-19&nbsp;YLT</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul's casting out in the name of Jesus the spirit of the demon Python from the young girl after "many days" of delay doing so does not prove Paul knew the&nbsp;<span data-mce-mark="1">true</span>&nbsp;Jesus. See&nbsp;<span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">&nbsp;(</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%207&amp;version=ESV" style="color: #517291; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Matt 7:21-23 ESV</a>&nbsp;(ones who work anomia -- negation of law [see <a href="/recommendedreading/737-anomia-in-nt-means-negation-mosaic-law.html">link</a> on its meaning], but did miracles in Jesus' name, including cast out demons, Jesus says He will say "I never knew you."<span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">) </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">For an in depth discussion of these nameless priestesses at Philippi and Delphi - virtual rock stars for centuries, see our article <a href="/recommendedreading/373-spirit-of-python-promoted-paul-in-acts-16.html">Paul's Encounter with the Python Priestess</a>.</span></span></p>
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<p>&nbsp;<strong style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Prophetic Utterances Uncanny Similarity to Paul's Gift of Tongues</strong><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Doesn't this appear to be Glossalia / Excited Utterances?</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">The method of words of prophecy by the Python have a chilling similarity to modern &nbsp;'glossalia' that I have personally witnessed in certain churches.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Now remember, the gift of tongues of the 12 apostles was different: it was the ability to speak to foreign-language speakers, and the listeners would understand it in their own language. See <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A4%3B+2%3A6&amp;version=YLT">Acts 2:4; 2:6</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">So here is what is so chilling to consider to explain how our modern behavior may have entered the church from copying practices of the Pythonesses of ancient Greece.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacharsis" style="color: #517291;">Anarcharsis</a>&nbsp;in a travel journal of the 6th Century before Christ identified that "toward the middle [of the temple] is an aperture from whence came the&nbsp;<strong>prophetic&nbsp;</strong>exalation." (Howey,&nbsp;<em>id.</em>.,&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=SY6DUnOOZSAC&amp;lpg=PA142&amp;dq=%22spirit%20of%20python&amp;pg=PA144#v=onepage&amp;q=%22spirit%20of%20python&amp;f=false" style="color: #517291;">144</a>.) The young virgin Python would drink some water which "it is said [has] the virtue of&nbsp;<strong>disclosing futurity</strong>."&nbsp;<em>Id.&nbsp;</em>Interestingly, the young prophetess would have her&nbsp;<strong>limbs</strong>&nbsp;suffer "<strong>involuntary</strong>&nbsp;<strong>motions</strong>," and she uttered "plaintiff&nbsp;<strong>cries</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>deep</strong>&nbsp;<strong>groans</strong>" (<em>id.</em>) She then uttered "<strong>dreadful</strong>&nbsp;<strong>howlings</strong>&nbsp;which were eagerly collected by the priests." Then the priests went to work. Anarcharsis continues: "They arranged them in proper order, and delivered them to us in writing."&nbsp;<em>Id.&nbsp;</em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Leadbetter summarizes it even more pointedly, unaware how this might educate Christians to problems about Paul's glossalia instructions:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">"After she mumbled her answer, a male priest would&nbsp;<strong>translate</strong>&nbsp;it for the supplicant." (Ron Leadbetter, "<a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html" style="color: #517291;">Apollo</a>," Pantheon.org (2012).)</span><em></em></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Importantly, Origen -- a leading Christian writer --&nbsp; in 248 AD in&nbsp;<strong>Contra Celsum</strong>&nbsp;used these <strong>fits of ecstasy</strong> to prove the Python Priestess was under the influence of demons, and not the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; He wrote:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">[I]t is not part of the divine spirit to drive the prophetess [Pythia] into such a state of&nbsp;<strong>ecstasy</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>madness</strong>&nbsp;that she&nbsp;<strong>loses</strong>&nbsp;<strong>control</strong>&nbsp;of herself. For he who is under the influence of a Divine Spirit ought to be the first to receive the beneficial effects, ... and moreover, that should be the time of clearest perception when one is in close intercourse with the Deity." ...For we are persuaded that the Spirit "mortifies the deeds of the body" ... If, then, the Pythian priestess is&nbsp;<strong>beside</strong>&nbsp;<strong>herself</strong>&nbsp;<strong>when</strong>&nbsp;<strong>she</strong>&nbsp;<strong>prophesies</strong>, what spirit must that be that fills her mind and&nbsp;<strong>clouds</strong>&nbsp;her judgment with&nbsp;<strong>darkness</strong>, unless it be of the same order with those <strong>demons</strong> which Christians cast out of persons possessed with them? (<strong>Contra Celsum</strong>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.documenta-catholica.eu/d_0185-0254-%20Origene%20-%20Contra%20Celsus%20-%20EN.pdf" style="color: #517291;">link</a>, pg. 171.)<br /><em></em></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">What is interesting is how similar the Python priestess received and relayed her messages to what Paul's describes as the gift of tongues.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">Thus, as already mentioned, while the true apostolic gift of tongues was the ability of an apostle to speak and those of another language to hear their own language spoken (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A4%3B+2%3A6&amp;version=YLT">Acts 2:4; 2:6</a> (heard in own dialect),&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">Paul gives <strong>the same name</strong> to something totally different. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">What Paul describes is identical to the&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">ecstatic</strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;utterances of the "spirit of Python" where another would interpret and write it down. The words were not readily understandable as they were supposed to be if they had &nbsp;been the true apostolic gift revealed in Acts 2. But Paul discloses his very different version from the original gift of tongues in the text we quoted at the beginning. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">Please now compare carefully the strikingly similar manner in which the&nbsp; "spirit of Python" and her interpreters operated, as just proven, with what Paul claims is the gift:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">"If any man speak in<strong><em>&nbsp;</em>an unknown tongue</strong>, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and&nbsp;<strong>let one interpret.</strong>" (<a href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/14-27.htm" style="color: #517291;">1 Cor. 14:27 KJV</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">We all are also familiar that when speaking in unintelligible sounds begins at church, sometimes the speaker and sometime others lose all control of their bodies, and start contortions.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul, I hate to say it, appears to have unknowingly introduced demonic practices of the occult into the church.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Thus, one must wonder if Paul's stinger in the flesh from an "Angel of Satan" in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+corinthians+12%3A7&amp;version=MOUNCE">2 Cor. 12:7</a>&nbsp;impaled him somehow with Satan's spirit of Python -- what Paul unwittingly reveals when he describes the glossalia-spirit, of which Paul says in very "modest" terms t</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">hat </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">"I speak in tongues</span><em style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></em><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">more than all of you</strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">. (</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20cor.%2014:18&amp;version=NIV" style="color: #517291;">1 Cor. 14:18 NIV</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">.)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">When someone asked me on May 10, 2020 about the gift of the spirit of speaking in tongues, and what I thought about it, I shared the Python Priestess evidence. The reaction to this evidence was quite confirmatory. She said when her husband heard about this similarity, the Holy Spirit chilled her husband's spirit to the bone.&nbsp; Please see this anonymized email exchange at this&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/823-was-python-priestess-of-acts-16-the-source-of-paul-teaching-on-tongues-explained-by-an-interpreter.html" style="color: #517291;">link</a>.</span></p> </td>
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