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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
If I do not understand the meaning of the words, then the speaker will seem to me a foreigner, that is, one speaking unintelligibly; and I will seem the same to him, not because of the poorness of the words, but because of our lack of understanding.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Here he shows their uselessness. And this is what he says: "If I have spoken in all tongues," but did not know the meaning of the words, I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker a foreigner to me. Note that barbarians according to some are those whose idiom completely disagrees with Latin. But others say that any foreigner is a barbarian to every other foreigner, namely, when he is not understood by him. …
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