4:24 calls God a “consuming fire.” When the Holy Spirit comes on the believers at Pentecost in Acts 2, the text tells us that “divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them” (v. 3). Fire is never used in the Bible in reference to a human being; it is always a reference to God. Easton’s Bible Dictionary states that both of these elements—smoke and fire—are “symbolic of the presence of the Almighty.”8 Rabbi Rashi, author of the extensive commentary on the Tanak and the