By a further spiritualization Origen could call God himself this consuming fire.

On that day, they raised their wings to heaven and watched as consuming fire turned them to ash, for ever excluding them from the air.

He later repented and was marked by the consuming fire.

On such a supposition, I speak with reverence, he would be a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Here it was simply a case of waiting for the consuming fire to arrive.

But the consuming fire is more terrible than any punishment invented by riotous and cruel imagination.

That consuming fire swallowed us, for the merest fraction of a second.

Somehow she and the others had managed to reach the middle of the lawn, a safe distance from the consuming fire.

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire.