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Else if thou bless with the spirit (epei ean eulogēis en pneumati). Third class condition. He means that, if one is praying and praising God (1Co 10:16) in an ecstatic prayer, the one who does not understand the ecstasy will be at a loss when to say “amen” at the close of the prayer. In the synagogues the Jews used responsive amens at the close of prayers (Neh 5:13; Neh 8:6; 1Ch 16:36; Psa 106:48).
He that filleth the place of the unlearned (ho anaplērōn ton topon tou idiōtou). Not a special part of the room, but the position of the idiōtou (from idios, one’s own), common from Herodotus for private person (Act 4:13), unskilled (2Co 11:6), uninitiated (unlearned) in the gift of tongues as here and 1Co 14:23.
At thy giving of thanks (epi tēi sēi eucharistiāi). Just the prayer, not the Eucharist or the Lord’s Supper, as is plain from 1Co 14:17.