Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16. Christ is speaking in these places of the wheat and the chaff-the men who receive him and those who reject him. The former class shall be abundantly endued with the teachings and consolations of the Holy Spirit, but "the chaff-he will burn with fire unquenchable." Many here understand "fire" in the widest sense of purification: the purification of Christ's people by the destruction of the ungodly from among them, and their purification from sin by the discipline to which he subjects them. "He shall sit as a refiner's fire."

Sanctified by God the Holy Ghost.
... bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." For what
purpose is this fiery baptism with the Holy Ghost? Most ...
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The Baptism in Fire
... Baptism with the Holy Ghost is not one thing and baptism with fire another, but
the former is the reality of which the latter is the symbol. ...
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The Baptism of the Spirit
... The one shows how the Baptism of the Spirit provides the inward spring ... in you, and
in Jesus Christ's name I say, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost'. 'Tis fire we want ...
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Conclusion.
... Do not speak, then, of having had many baptisms of the Spirit, but seek
and find the one baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire. Do ...
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Petilianus Said: "For Although There is Only one Baptism...
... that that last fire which was named in connection with baptism was found in the
tongues of fire which were displayed on the coming of the Holy Ghost, how came ...
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Whether Water is the Proper Matter of Baptism?
... than with water: and all the more since John the Baptist said when foretelling Christ's
Baptism (Mat.3:11): "He shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire." ...
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Whether it is Fitting to Say that when Christ was Baptized the ...
... it was fitting that the Holy Ghost should appear at the baptism under the ... But on
the apostles the Holy Ghost descended under the form of fire, for two ...
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John's Explanation of his Relation to the Messiah. The Baptism By
... [96] Some think the "fire" is used as a symbol of the Holy Ghost, inasmuch as ... In
this view of the passage, as the baptism by water symbolizes preparatory ...
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The Baptism with the Holy Spirit.
... There are not two different baptisms spoken of, the one with the Holy Ghost and
one with fire, but one baptism with the Holy Wind and Fire. ...
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Continuation of the Discourse on the Holy Ghost.
... should procure, and that John should be His harbinger [2137] through baptism. ... me,
and the rest; He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire [2140 ...
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