Book, Chapter

 1        2, V      |         upon the just, and of the fire which is to devour the wicked,
 2        2, LXXIV  |         Sea, and in the pillar of fire and cloud of light, but
 3        2, LXXVI  |       your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour
 4        4, I      |          My words in thy mouth as fire. See, I have set thee this
 5        4, XI     |        God will descend, bringing fire like a torturer." Now in
 6        4, XI     |        God will descend, bringing fire like a torturer." ~
 7        4, XIII   |           like a torturer bearing fire," and thus compels us unseasonably
 8        4, XIII   |           our God is "a consuming fire," and that "He draws rivers
 9        4, XIII   |          that "He draws rivers of fire before Him;" nay, that He
10        4, XIII   |       entereth in as "a refiner's fire, and as a fuller's herb,"
11        4, XIII   |           said to be a "consuming fire," we inquire what are the
12        4, XIII   |       stubble," God consumes as a fire. The wicked man, accordingly,
13        4, XIII   |            it is evident that the fire must be understood to be
14        4, XIII   |           in what sense the word "fire" is to be taken, so that "
15        4, XIII   |         the Scripture) says: "The fire will try each man's work
16        4, XIII   |           our God is a "consuming fire" in the sense in which we
17        4, XIII   |         enters in as a "refiner's fire," to refine the rational
18        4, XIII   |           like manner, "rivers of fire" are said to be before God,
19        4, XIII   |        God will come down bearing fire like a torturer."~
20        4, XX     |    certain times by a deluge or a fire, as Plato, too, says somewhere
21        4, XXI    |         Homer. The destruction by fire, moreover, of Sodom and
22        4, XXI    |       then, that the purificatory fire and the destruction of the
23        4, XXIII  |           consume the wicked with fire, that the rest of us may
24        4, XXXVIII| retribution for the theft of "the fire;" while that regarding the
25        4, XXXVIII|        send evil for thy stealthy fire,~While all embrace it, and
26        4, XLV    |            its full meaning), saw fire devastating their city and
27        4, LXXIII |        had their city consumed by fire, they suffered this punishment
28        5, XI     |        not bow down to a spark of fire or a lamp upon earth, because
29        5, XIV    |       were a cook, introduces the fire (which is to consume the
30        5, XV     |    Hebrews), it is a purificatory fire which is brought upon the
31        5, XV     |       need of chastisement by the fire and healing at the same
32        5, XV     |      needs to be consumed by that fire, and which burns and consumes
33        5, XV     |       Lord will, like a refiner's fire and fullers' soap, visit
34        5, XV     |       their evil nature; who need fire, I mean, to refine, as it
35        5, XV     |       that we say that God brings fire upon the world, not like
36        5, XV     |         need of the discipline of fire, will be testified by the
37        5, XV     |        Because thou hast coals of fire, sit upon them: they shall
38        5, XV     |          that "God introduces the fire (which is to destroy the
39        5, XVI    |           his ideas regarding the fire which is to be brought upon
40        5, XVI    |          who are unscathed by the fire and the punishments are
41        5, XVII   |        come upon the world by the fire of purification, not only
42        5, XXVII  |    deliver themselves over to the fire, and who terminate their
43        5, XXVII  |      terminate their existence by fire; and how it is an act of
44        5, XXX    |        bricks, and burn them with fire." Accordingly, when they
45        5, XXXIV  |       their deceased fathers with fire? on which they raised a
46        6, III    |      light in the soul, as from a fire which had leapt forth."
47        6, III    |           in the soul, as if by a fire springing forth, and that
48        6, V      |      kindled in the soul, as by a fire leaping forth, is a fact
49        6, XXV    |           cometh like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
50        6, XXXI   |           overleap the rampart of fire, O Horaeus, who didst obtain
51        6, XLIV   |          tested, like gold in the fire, by the wickedness of these,
52        6, LVI    |         said, "Thou hast coals of fire to set upon them; they shall
53        6, LXX    |           a "body," any more than fire is a "body," which God is
54        6, LXX    |            Our God is a consuming fire." For all these are figurative
55        6, LXX    |            if God be said to be a fire that consumes wood, and
56        6, LXX    |           if He should be called "fire." In this way, if God be
57        6, LXXI   |          things to destruction by fire; we, however, know of no
58        6, LXXI   |           that is destructible by fire, nor (do we believe) that
59        6, LXXI   |      powers," can be dissolved by fire.~
60        6, LXXII  |          we term God a "consuming fire," he were to say that there "
61        6, LXXII  |         that there "is no kind of fire which lasts for ever;" not
62        6, LXXII  |          we say that our God is a fire, and what the things are
63        6, LXXII  |            to consume vice by the fire of His chastisements. He
64        7, IX     |          I will send down eternal fire, both on cities and on countries.
65        8, XXII   |       some share of the tongue of fire which God sends.~
66        8, LVI    |           as gold is tried in the fire, so the spirit of man is
67        8, LXXII  |       things shall be turned into fire. But our belief is, that
68        8, LXXII  |        shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy. For then