Origen Against Celsus Book VI Nor is the Spirit, in our opinion, a "body," any more than fire is a "body," which God is said to be in the passage, "Our God is a consuming fire."[362] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI Now he is of the appearance of fire. Moses also, he says, expresses himself thus: "The Lord thy God is a burning and consuming fire."[81] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity But these things are rather used as figures than as being so in fact. For as, in the Old Testament,[38]