like devouring fire] Hebrews 12:29. and it might be not only like as fire, but fire indeed, as John 1:14. The Lord appeareth like devouring fire to carnall men, but to them that he enlighteneth by his Spirit he is like pleasant Saphir, vers. 10. yet to neither did he appeare in any similitude, for idolaters to presume to represent him in pictures. See Deut. 4. 15, 16.