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Our God is a 'consuming fire' in the sense in which we have taken the word; and thus he enters in as a 'refiner's fire' to refine the rational nature, which has been filled with the lead of wickedness, and to free it from the other impure materials which adulterate the natural gold or silver, so to speak, of the soul. [30]
For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap; And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and there shall be they that shall offer unto the L ORD offerings in righteousness.
The Air for soprano, alto, or bass, as a human reaction to the words of God, shows the trembling in the expectation of the Lord's appearance twofold in a dramatic scene. The Air begins with the pensive question "But who may abide" and continues, in a sharp shift of time and tempo "Prestissimo", with the statement "For He is like a refiner's fire".
Handel often stresses a word by extended coloraturas, especially in several movements which are a parody of music composed earlier on Italian texts. He uses a cantus firmus on long repeated notes especially to illustrate God's speech and majesty, for example "for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it" in movement 4 .
The whole Book of Malachi in Latin as a part of Codex Gigas, made around 13th century.. The original manuscript of this book is lost, as are many centuries worth of copies. The oldest surviving manuscripts containing some or all of this book in Hebrew are in the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th ...
The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-56564-6. Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-521-69218-2. There Is A North. Massachusetts Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-62534-447-2.
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Some Christian leaders disputed the church's assertion that the manifestations were divine in origin. [46] A leading critic was Hank Hanegraaff who wrote a book, Counterfeit Revival, which charged the church with promoting heresy. [47] However, other Christian leaders endorsed the "blessing" as a genuine work of God. [46]