Quench not the spirit (το πνευμα μη σβεννυτε). Μη with the present imperative means to stop doing it or not to have the habit of d…

Quench not the Spirit. This language is taken from the way of putting out a fire; and the sense is, we are not to extinguish the influence…

Quench not the Spirit.—The mention of prayer and thanksgiving (eucharistia), by which public as well as private …

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none re…

Paul now shifts from the personal life to communal worship (vv.19–22). “Do not put out the Spirit’s fire” alludes to the Holy Spirit as a burning p…

Quench not the Spirit. This metaphor is derived from the power and nature of the Spirit; for as it is the Spirit's proper role to illumina…

Quench not the spirit .

We are to rejoice in creature-comforts as if we did not rejoice, and we must not expect to live many years and rejoice in them all; but if we rejoi…

Earlier, he showed them how they should remain subject to their bishops. Here he makes the same point from another point of view. Regarding this, h…