EXPLANATION

Numbers 16:35. It consumed those who were at the outskirts of the camp; therefore the name of the place was original: "Taphera"; usually rendered as Taberah, because they burned by the fire of Jehovah. Furthermore, the fire proceeding from Jehovah in this, His specific property, consumed those 250 men who had offered incense. Hence, Solomon says concerning these places: "Your creation, O Fire, serving You who made all things, is intensified for punishment against the unjust, and is relaxed for the benefit of those who trust in You." By His "messengers" (I have said): for just as He made His angels invisible winds, so indeed He made His ministers a burning fire, or visible winds. For lightnings are nothing other than the invisible ministers of God, gathered together into one visible form; whence the text says: "He made His ministers a burning fire." Hence it says elsewhere:
Job.

Job 37:8. "Will you send out lightnings and they shall go, and returning say to you: 'Here we are'?" And again in Job: "The whirlwind, cold, ice, clouds, rain, lightning—whatever God commands these to do upon the surface of the whole earth, whether as a scourge or to perform an act of kindness, He causes them to be ready," etc. But the command of God within them is the Word of God, which according to the will of Him who spoke, agitates and animates these Angelic organs The physical elements of nature—wind, fire, rain—acting as the instruments or "limbs" of angelic power to fulfill His desire. Therefore it is evident that it is not the Angels, but God through the Angels, who works in this manner.
Psalm 88:17. Whence David says: "By Your wrath we are consumed, and by Your heat we are troubled."
Job 21:17 & 20. And Job: "The impious man drinks from the fury of the Almighty, and God imparts sorrows in His anger."
Deuteronomy 4:24. Hence elsewhere God is called a "consuming fire," namely when in His Eastern property He is surrounded by His fiery troops; in which state it is said:
Job 41:18. "He rains upon the wicked coals, fire, and sulfur, and a wind joined with various
Psalm 21:10. storms original: "praestere"; a whirlwind or fiery storm shall be the portion of their cup. Jehovah in His wrath absorbs them, as if fire consumes them."

Job 6:4. are heavy within me, their poison drinks up my spirit," etc. "You lift
Job 30. me up and cause me to dissolve in substance; my bowels have boiled over so that my pulses do not rest," etc. And all this he acknowledges is done because of the assaults of burning spirits upon his vital spirits The subtle, active substances believed to sustain life, heat, and movement in the body. These unhealthy fiery spirits, the heavy arrows of God which are drawn up as if in a battle line, attack his spirit and cause the vital spirits or the radical moisture The innate "oil" or fluid of the body believed to be the fuel for the flame of life; its depletion led to death to be absorbed, no differently than water is by the violence of fire. Do we not see plagues and epidemic diseases arise after the dissolution of a Comet or some unhappily appearing ignited meteor—namely, on account of their seeds being invisibly scattered through the expanse of the air after their disappearance? But I would wish that you look upon the corners of the world from every side, and ask from which quarter of the world the Angelic winds of God principally send out fiery breaths of this kind; then you will perceive that the Eastern quarter is assigned to the burning property of God, as it is the fountain and source of the element of fire, without whose Angelic breath the universal element of the world is not rendered fiery.

So when God wished to pour out His burning wrath upon the prophet Jonah, He did not use any of the other winds as an instrument in His ministry to perform that work, but
Jonah 4:8. the text says: "The Lord commanded a hot and burning wind," or, according to the interpretation of Tremellius, "He prepared a silent Eurus The Latin name for the East Wind so that the sun might strike the head of Jonah, so that he
Genesis 41:6. became faint and begged for his soul that he might die." That is, the vehement heat of that wind joined with the solar rays performed this business appointed by God. Thus
Ezekiel 19:20. in Genesis: "A burning wind, or the East wind, scorched the ears of corn and the grass." And in Ezekiel: "She shall be cast down in wrath, a burning wind, or the East wind, shall dry up her fruit, and her branches
Amos 4:9. shall be broken and withered by decay." And in Amos: "I have struck you with a burning wind and with mildew original: "aurigine"; a blight or yellowing of plants the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards;
Hosea 13:15. I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt." Hosea: "After the East wind comes, the wind of Jehovah ascending from the desert, his spring shall fail and his
Haggai 2:18. fountain shall be dried up," etc. And in Haggai: "I struck you with a burning wind," etc. So also says David:

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