Innis

The Parthians heard in Parthian. The Medes heard in Median. The same event arriving through every particular form and not crushed into the form the speakers preferred. Paul wrote the Corinthians one letter and the Ephesians another because they knew different things and needed different words and the same words would not have been the same thing in both places. That is not the reversal of Babel. The languages are still scattered. The knowledge is still dispersed. What happened at Pentecost is that the dispersal was honoured rather than overcome, the particular preserved rather than flattened, more of the truth held in more forms than any single account could have contained. Babel vindicated. The scatter still in effect and revealed as the point.