And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
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Interpretation
We cannot forget how often, while their Master was with them there were strifes among the disciples which should be the greatest; but now all these strifes were at an end. They had prayed more together of late.
Glossary
- Tongues, Confusion of People
- At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language”.