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Despise not prophesyings (prophēteias mē exoutheneite). Same construction, stop counting as nothing (exoutheneō, outhen̂ouden), late form in lxx. Plutarch has exoudenizō. Plural form prophēteias (accusative). Word means forth-telling (prȯphēmi) rather than fore-telling and is the chief of the spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 14) and evidently depreciated in Thessalonica as in Corinth later.