Leviticus 6:13
This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.
Challoner: The perpetual fireThis fire came from heaven, (infra. chap. 9. 24,) and was always kept burning on the altar, as a figure of the heavenly fire of divine love, which ought to be always burning in the heart of a Christian.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ignis est iste perpetuus, qui numquam deficiet in altari.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ πῦρ διὰ παντὸς καυθήσεται ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον, οὐ σβεσθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Leviticus 6:6
- אֵ֗שׁ תָּמִ֛יד תּוּקַ֥ד עַל הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ לֹ֥א תִכְבֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
The perpetual fire. This fire came from heaven, (chap. ix. 24,) and was always kept burning on the altar: as a figure of the heavenly fire of divine love, which ought to be always burning in the heart of a Christian. (Challoner)
It must be fed by assiduous meditation on the Scripture and holy things. (Du Hamel)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.