Bible Dictionary: Fire: Melting

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Psalm 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
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Isaiah 64:2
As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
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That the Ultimate Reason for Believing Miracles is the Omnipotence ...
... Yet this seems rather contrary to nature, which has given not to fire but to water
the power of melting salt, and the power of scorching it not to water but to ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 7 that the ultimate reason.htm

Fire on Earth
... If you take a piece of foul clay, and push it into a furnace, as it warms it whitens,
and you can see the stains melting off it as the fire exercises its ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/fire on earth.htm

Still, in his Examination of the Amount of Justice and Wisdom ...
... more precious substance to its natural lustre: (not that the separation is effected
without difficulty, for it takes time for the fire by its melting force to ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xxvi still in his.htm

The Baptism in Fire
... a word, it is fire as life, and not as death, that is the symbol of God. It speaks
of the might of His transforming power, the melting, cleansing, vitalising ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the baptism in fire.htm

John's Witness to Jesus, and God's
... but the vitalising, glowing, transforming, energy of fire, which is expressed. The
fervour of holy enthusiasm, the warmth of ardent love, the melting of hard ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/johns witness to jesus and.htm

Of Self-Annihilation
... feet of Christ in the stable of Bethlehem, was signified by the incense they offered:
for prayer being the energy and fire of love, melting, dissolving, and ...
/.../guyon/a short and easy method of prayer/chapter xx of self-annihilation.htm

How the Mingling of Love and Sorrow Takes Place in Contrition.
... how she weeps with love: They have taken away my Lord, says she, melting into tears ...
is with it as is said to be with Ethiopian rubies, whose fire is naturally ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xx how the mingling.htm

As the Terrors of Imagined Suffering are Always Worse than Actual ...
... Powerless to move or speak, he stood watching the terrible circle of fire, extend
and expand, till all the visible universe seemed melting in one red furnace ...
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Through Three Things a Man Becomes God-Seeing
... And through this intimate feeling of union, it feels itself to be melting into the
Unity ... of the Divine Unity; and he feels himself to be an eternal fire of love ...
/.../the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter iii through three things.htm

Motives to Holy Mourning
... Tears are the best engines and waterworks to quench the devil's fire; and if there
be ... 11 And lastly, to have a melting frame of spirit is a great sign of God's ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/8 motives to holy mourning.htm