Bible Dictionary: Fire: Purifying

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Numbers 31:23
Every thing that may abide the fire, you shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that stays not the fire you shall make go through the water.
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1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
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Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
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Fire on Earth
... clay, and push it into a furnace, as it warms it whitens, and you can see the stains
melting off it as the fire exercises its beneficent and purifying mastery. ...
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The Consuming Fire.
... God. Nor is it always torture. The fire shows itself sometimes only as
light"still it will be fire of purifying. The consuming ...
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Of Malachi's Prophecy, in which He Speaks of the Last Judgment ...
... for He enters as a moulder's fire, and as the herb of fullers: and He shall sit
fusing and purifying as if over gold and silver: and He shall purify the sons ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 25 of malachis prophecy in.htm

The Lord's Furnace
... The true way of purifying is by fire. To purify by water, as John the Baptist saw
and said, is but a poor, cold way of getting outward cleanliness. ...
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Purifying the Soul
... The true Agent of all purifying is that Divine Spirit. ... He is Divine fire that burns
up the dross and foulness; but, unless we 'guard the holy fire' and feed it ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/purifying the soul.htm

Whether the Cleansing of the World Will be Effected by Fire?
... Objection 3: Further, this cleansing would seem to consist in purifying the parts
of ... the world the cleansing will be done immediately by God and not by fire. ...
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John's Explanation of his Relation to the Messiah. The Baptism By
... In this view of the passage, as the baptism by water symbolizes preparatory repentance,
so that by fire symbolizes the transfiguring and purifying power of the ...
/.../section 39 johns explanation of.htm

Sorrowful yet Always Rejoicing.
... It is as the refiner's fire, purifying the soul and binding it closer to God. Such
sorrow detaches the heart from the world and from self, and hides it in God. ...
/.../orr/how to live a holy life/sorrowful yet always rejoicing.htm

The Bush that Burned, and did not Burn Out
... Therefore, as cleansing, as the source of life, light, warmth, change, as glorifying,
transmuting, purifying, refining, fire is the fitting symbol of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the bush that burned and.htm

Abbot Paul who Every Year Burnt with Fire all the Works of his ...
... been filled with a whole year's work, each year he would burn with fire that at ... this
to be done, yet he performed it simply for the sake of purifying his heart ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xxiv abbot paul who.htm