OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 17:6

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but only the glimmering of a self-kindled fire appeared to them, full of fear. In terror, they considered the things which they saw to be worse than that sight, on which they could not gaze.

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Verse 6. Fire. Like lightning, which would not allow them leisure to distinguish objects. Calmet.

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