14
Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
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Verse 14. Thereat, to warm themselves, ( Bible.) or to adore. Calmet.—In Cappadocia are to be seen “Pyratheia, … in which the magi keep a perpetual fire, and sing hymns about the space of an hour.” Strabo xv.—These were a sort of open temples. Calmet.
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