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Harold Best observes that Babel and Pentecost are inverted events in God's story (Genesis 11:6-9 and Acts 2:1-4), and that at Pentecost "a thousand tongues turned out not to suffice" to praise God's initiative toward us.
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Babel is inverted Pentecost and Pentecost is Babel turned right side up. It is so because God takes the initiative and does His building from His throne, at whose right hand the risen and ascended Christ is seated. I think it safe to say that at Pentecost stylistic singularity went out the window and a thousand tongues turned out not to suffice.
—Harold Best, Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts, 170
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Genesis 11:6-9; Acts 2:1-4
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John 16:14
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