There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices
(anvl) , "tongues", or
"languages", as the Syriac version renders it; that is, as many
as there are nations in the world; there may be seventy of them,
as the Jews say there were at the confusion of languages at
Babel; there may be more or less:
and none of them is without signification:
every language, and every word in a language, has a meaning in
it, an idea annexed to it, which it conveys to him that
understands it, and that cannot be done without a voice
ordinarily speaking.