And the king's servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Brimstone. Literally, naphtha, (Haydock) or bitumen, which was very inflammable.
Tow, besmeared with pitch. (Calmet)
Dry (malleolis) "bundles "of sticks, or ropes, covered with pitch. (Haydock)
Manipuli spartoei pice contecti. (Nonius.)
Sallust in his history says that the naphtha is a species of tinder used in Persia, most apt in feeding fires. Others believe that naphtha is the name given to olive pits that are thrown away when the dregs of the oil have dried up. They assert that in the same way, the Greek term pyrinē comes from its property of feeding the fire (pyr). - "Commentary on Daniel 3.46"
Naphtha: The Roman historian Sallust wrote that naphtha is a kind of tinder in use among the Persians which furnishes the utmost encouragement to fires. Others are of the opinion that naphtha is the name applied to olive-pits which are thrown away when the dregs of the oil have dried up. In the same way, they assert, the Greek term pyrine is derived from its property of nourishing pyr, that is, "fire".
Sallust (D) in his histories writes that naphtha is a kind of tinder in use among the Persians which furnishes the utmost encouragement to fires. Others are of the opinion that naphtha is the name applied to olive-pits which are thrown away when the dregs of the oil have dried up. In the same way, they assert, the Greek term pyrine is derived from its property of nourishing pyr, that is, "fire".
