[Blogger]

Your statement was that there was NO SCRIPTURE at Pentacost. The Old Testament is Scripture. When they spoke in the languages of the people present, they weren't just sharing from their hearts - rather, they were prophesying as the Spirit gave them utterance - as Peter indicates at the beginning of his sermon - tying the event directly with the prophecy of Scripture. It wasn't 'the church' acting apart from Scripture, but the church uttering Scriptural truth. And Peter's own words were no doubt heard as the voices of the others were heard - in the language of the hearer. And those very words were laden with Scripture. The words of Peter's sermon gained their authority from the direct quotation of Scripture. Peter didn't reference any supposed "Super-apostolic" authority; rather, he pointed to Joel, and David, and the miracles of Christ Himself as the authority for the words he was speaking. In other words, Peter was a tremendous example of Sola Scriptura and Solos Christos in his sermon at Pentacost.

[annalex]

Of course, I know that the Old Testament was available to the Church. It is the New Testament that was not yet written, and that was the point of my perhaps insufficiently annotated comment.

And those very words were laden with Scripture

The speaking in tongues looking drunk would seem to suggest speaking ad lib and not reading from a Hebrew or Greek book.