Augustine also discusses a phenomenon that he called jubilation, which is very similar to what modern Charismatics would call "singing in the Spirit," that is, in other tongues. According to Augustine, a person begins to jubilate when the mouth is not able to express with words what the heart is singing. The person continues to make sounds, but the sounds are inarticulate because the heart is giving utterance to what it cannot say in words. He then says:
And for whom is such jubilation fitting if not for the ineffable God? For he is ineffable whom one cannot express in words, and if you cannot express him in words, and yet you cannot remain silent either, then what is left but to sing in jubilation, so that your heart may rejoice without words, and your unbounded joy may not be confined by the limits of syllables.
From 2000 years of Charismatic Christianity by Eddie L. Hayatt
Amen!!
That is all I have to say about that.
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