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bestowal of tongues a real gift of speaking
and I can find no one more satisfactory than the old-fashioned one, that there was a real bestowal of tongues, a real gift of speaking in foreign languages, granted to the Apostles, to be used as occasion required when preaching the gospel in heathen lands.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

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