But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows, and struck the flame of the fire out of the oven;
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Jerome
AD 420
When the spirit is suffocated from inner turmoil and taken up with various kinds of restlessness, having been deprived for the moment of any hope of human aid and turning totally to the Lord, an angel of the Lord descends near to it. In other words, the divine word descends to the aid of the servant and brushes aside the burning blazes of passion so that the heated darts of the enemy do not penetrate the inner citadel of our heart and the enemy cannot hold us in his fiery furnace.
