Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Thessalonians 5:19 - 5:19

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Thessalonians 5:19 - 5:19


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Quench not the spirit (to pneuma mē sbennute). Mē with the present imperative means to stop doing it or not to have the habit of doing it. It is a bold figure. Some of them were trying to put out the fire of the Holy Spirit, probably the special gifts of the Holy Spirit as 1Th 5:20 means. But even so the exercise of these special gifts (1 Corinthians 12-14; 2Co 12:2-4; Rom 12:6-9) was to be decently (euschēmonōs, 1Th 4:12) and in order (kata taxin, 1Co 14:40) and for edification (pros oikodomēn, 1Co 14:26). Today, as then, there are two extremes about spiritual gifts (cold indifference or wild excess). It is not hard to put out the fire of spiritual fervor and power.