Note: This booklet is now a chapter (with the other seven booklets in the Biblical Studies Series) in Nourishment from the Word.

Summary of the key issues regarding tongues (nature, purpose, cessation), showing conclusively that they ceased in the first century.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. The Nature of Tongues
    A. The Form of Tongues in Scripture
    B. The Content of Tongues in Scripture

II. The Purpose of Tongues
    A. Tongues as Confirmation of the Apostolic Message
    B. Tongues as a Sign of Covenant Curse upon Israel

III. The Transience of Tongues
    A. Tongues' Functional Purpose Realized
    B. Scripture Designates a Terminus Ad Quem