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At the beginning of the twentieth century, The Tongue of Fire: The True Power of Christianity called the church to re-examine the power and provision of the Holy Spirit. In this text, Irish minister William Arthur reflects on the Spirit and the Pentecost, focusing on the symbolic imagery used to describe the Spirit’s descent on the church. Arthur’s work pushes against what he saw as the church’s...

the Baptist had said, “When the Messiah cometh, he will baptize all men; those who receive Him, he will baptize with the Holy Ghost, and those who reject Him he will baptize with fire.” But, though that view receives apparent confirmation from the words, “Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire,” there is one insuperable objection to it in the fact that John’s language fairly implies

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