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Job 41:19

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Are. Literally, "are turned into stubble "as in Hebrew. (Haydock) They have no more effect. (Menochius)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
58. For those who look forward are called his ‘eyes,’ but those who preach, his ‘mouth.’ But lamps proceed from this ‘mouth,’ because they inflame the minds of their hearers to the love of misbelief, and from seeming to shine by wisdom, they doubtless thence burn with wickedness. But what kind of light their wisdom is, is shewn, when it is immediately subjoined, As kindled torches of fire. 59. Behold the hypocrisy of those is now plainly described, whose preaching is compared to lamps of torches. For when a torch is lighted, it has a sweet scent, but a dismal light. And so because these preachers of Antichrist claim to themselves a show of sanctity, but yet practise works of iniquity, the smell, as it were, which they emit is pleasant, but the light they give is dark. For they smell sweetly through their pretence of righteousness, but burn gloomily by their perpetration of iniquity. The malice of their hypocrisy John sums up in a brief description in the Apocalypse, saying; I beheld ...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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