46
The king’s servants who put them in didn’t stop making the furnace hot with naphtha, pitch, tinder, and small wood,
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Verse 46. Brimstone. Lit. naphtha, ( Bible.) or bitumen, which was very inflammable.—Tow, besmeared with pitch. Calmet.—Dry (malleolis) “bundles” of sticks, or ropes, covered with pitch. Bible.—Manipuli spartœi pice contecti. Nonius.
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