Joel 2:5 (WEB)
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
Fathers and councils · 1
“As I take it, that goodness can with difficulty gain a hold upon human nature, like fire upon green wood; while most men are ready and disposed to join in evil, like stubble, I mean, ready for a spark and a wind, which is easily kindled and consumed from its dryness.” — editor's note: Job xxi. 18; Ps. lxxxiii. 13; Isai. v. 24; Joel ii. 5.
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