it is written": "With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me". The quotation comes from the book of Isaiah, "but the term "the Law" was applied generally to the Old Testament". Verse 29 Paul writes "Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge". This provided the basis of the protestant practice of Prophesying as practiced by European protestants during the sixteenth century. Verses 34–35 Verses 34–35 are widely believed to have been interpolated into the text by a later scribe: Verses 34–35 are included in all extant manuscripts. Part of the reason for suspecting that this passage is an interpolation is that in several manuscripts in the Western tradition, it is placed at the end of chapter 14 instead of at its canonical location. This kind of variability is generally considered by textual critics to be a sign that a note, initially placed in the margins of the document, has been copied into the body of the text by a scribe. As E. Earle Ellis and Daniel B. Wallace note, however, a marginal note may well have been written by Paul himself. The loss of marginal arrows or other directional devices could explain why the scribe of the Western Vorlage placed it at the end of the chapter. The absence of an asterisk or obelisk in the margin of any manuscript – a common way of indicating doubt of authenticity – they argue, a strong argument that Paul wrote the passage and intended it in its traditional place. The passage has also been taken to contradict 11:5, where women are described as praying and prophesying in church. Alternatively, some scholars have argued that the passage is Paul's quotation of his Corinthian opponents, whom he has refuted by means of a negative rhetorical query directed toward the congregation in verse 36 following canonical order. Advocates of this quotation/refutation hypothesis explain the Western interpolation of the verses out of sequence (at the end of the chapter) as part of a scribal effort to shelter and defend these sentiments from the admonishment of Paul within the canonical verse order. See also Glossolalia Related Bible parts: 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 13 References Further reading Becker, Eve-Marie. "An Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians" 14: 33b-36. Carson, D. A. Showing the Spirit : a theological exposition