Acts 2

[withwonderingawe]

This is kind of a dumb question but what is a cloven tongue?

 

[Tigger45]

 

[Winken]

Cloven = divided, or separated. Not actually fire, but "like" fire .... a sudden burst of Holy Spirit entering those there gathered, per individual.

 

[ViaCrucis]

This is kind of a dumb question but what is a cloven tongue?

It's simply describing the appearance of fire as it flickers--it splits and divides again, etc.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[withwonderingawe]

I've been pondering this for several days and wondering if it was't more of an idiom or something. Could it be connected to Deuteronomy 14 and the command not to eat anything with a cloven hoof. Then when Peter had his dream where he learned there was nothing forbidden.

acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

So now in Acts 2 there are cloven tongues "....that every man heard them speak in his own language." the were Jewish men but it seems to be saying all are accepted.

I don't know, maybe that's a stretch.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I've been pondering this for several days and wondering if it was't more of an idiom or something. Could it be connected to Deuteronomy 14 and the command not to eat anything with a cloven hoof. Then when Peter had his dream where he learned there was nothing forbidden.

acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

So now in Acts 2 there are cloven tongues "....that every man heard them speak in his own language." the were Jewish men but it seems to be saying all are accepted.

I don't know, maybe that's a stretch.

I think you're reading too much into it. Literally "like divided tongues of fire", it is describing appearance. These aren't literal tongues, it is metaphorical, colorful language to describe what it looked like--it looked like fire.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[withwonderingawe]

I think you're reading too much into it. Literally "like divided tongues of fire", it is describing appearance. These aren't literal tongues, it is metaphorical, colorful language to describe what it looked like--it looked like fire.

-CryptoLutheran

You're probably right.

 

[gadar perets]

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[gadar perets]

I've been pondering this for several days and wondering if it was't more of an idiom or something. Could it be connected to Deuteronomy 14 and the command not to eat anything with a cloven hoof. Then when Peter had his dream where he learned there was nothing forbidden.

acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Peter did not learn nothing is forbidden. He learned not to call any man (Gentiles) common or unclean (Acts 10:28).