the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
when the flame: 2 Kings 2:11, Psalms 47:5, Hebrews 1:3
fell on: Genesis 17:3, Leviticus 9:24, 1 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 21:26, Ezekiel 1:26, Ezekiel 1:28, Daniel 10:9, Matthew 17:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 15:17 - smoking Genesis 17:17 - fell Genesis 17:22 - General Genesis 35:13 - General Judges 6:21 - rose up 1 Kings 18:39 - they fell John 1:18 - he hath
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For it came to pass, when the flame went up towards heaven from off the altar,.... That is, from the rock, which served instead of an altar, and from whence perhaps the fire sprung which consumed both the burnt offering and the meat offering, the flame of which went up to heaven; this rock or altar having no covering, but was "sub dio", open to the heavens:
that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar; making use of the smoke, as Josephus r says, as a vehicle in which he openly went up to heaven:
and Manoah and his wife looked on it; on the flame and smoke, and the angel in it as he ascended; just as the disciples of Christ looked steadfastly on him as he went up to heaven, when a cloud received him out of their sight, Acts 1:9
and fell on their faces to the ground; with astonishment and surprise at what they saw, through fear and reverence of the divine Being, of whose presence they were now sensible, and as worshipping of him, and praying to him.
r Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 3.)
