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Gill's Exposition
Abstain from all appearance of evil. Of doctrinal evil. Not only open error and heresy are to be avoided, but what has any show of it, or looks like it, or carries in it a suspicion of it, or may be…
Barnes' Notes
Despise not prophesyings - On the subject of prophesyings in the early Christian church, see the notes on 1Co 14:1 ff1 ff. The reference here seems to be to preaching. They were not to undervalue it…
Adam Clarke
Despise not prophesyings - Do not suppose that ye have no need of continual instruction; without it ye cannot preserve the Christian life, nor go on to perfection. God will ever send a message of…
Here we have divers short exhortations, that will not burden our memories, but will be of great use to direct the motions of our hearts and lives; for the duties are of great importance, and we may…
Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings The R. V. properly reduces to a semi-colon the full stop between these sentences.
What is revelationon God's part, is prophecyin its human instrument.…
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