16.  But if thou disbelieve, consider what befel Ananias and his companions.  What streams did they pour out Roe and Casaubon (R.C.) add:  “into the furnace of fire.”?  How many vessels R.C. “What measure.” of water could quench the flame that rose up forty-nine cubits high Song of the Three Children, v. 24.?  Nay, but where the flame mounted up a little R.C. “Much.” too high, faith was there poured out as a river, and there spake they the spell against all ills R.C. “A great stream of repentance was poured forth, when they said, For Thou art righteous,” &c.:  Righteous art Thou, O Lord, in all the things that Thou hast done to us:  for we have sinned, and transgressed Thy law Song of the Three Children, v. 4..  And their repentance quelled the flames R.C. “Did then repentance quench the flames of the furnace, and dost thou disbelieve that it is able also to quench the fire of hell?”.  If thou believest not that repentance is able to quench the fire of hell, learn it from what happened in regard to Ananias The Gospel only says, “There was darkness over all the land.”  An eclipse of the sun was impossible at the time of the Paschal full moon..  But some keen hearer will say, Those men God rescued justly in that case:  because they refused to commit idolatry, God gave them that power.  And since this thought has occurred, I come next to a different example of penitence R.C. “That the narrative is not appropriate to those who are here present.  For it was because Ananias and his companions refused to worship the idol, that God gave them that marvellous power.  Adapting myself, therefore, to such a hearer, and looking to the profusion of instances, I come next to a different example of repentance.”.