...their race, thousands of years ago, had pretended to have seen God, and had written of him as follows : "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire...of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it, * * * and he rode upon a cherub and did fly." Why should you object to these people on account of their...

...went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness...

...also of the hills moved And were shaken, because he was wroth, There went up a smoke out of (marg. by) his nostrils. And fire out of his mouth devoured ; Coals were kindled by it." The fulfilment of the next verse, which speaks of this actual descent, is deferred here by the description...

...Old Testament especially describes God's wrath in the language of emotion, with words such as "nose" his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. Not Incompatible with His Love God's wrath is not incompatible with his love, since we know from Scripture...