From Nave’s Topical Bible
Lightning
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
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- Job 28:26
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Commentary on Job 28:261 voice
When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the sounding tempests, then did He see it and declare it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. By 'rain' the sayings of those that preach are used to be denoted. Whence it is said by Moses; Let my doctrine be waited for as the rain; whose words, that is to say, when they gently persuade are 'rain,' but when they thunder out terrible things touching the Judgment to come, they are 'sounding tempests.'
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX, 604Patristic
- Job 37:3
He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Commentary on Job 37:31 voice
He himself considereth under all the heavens, and His light is over the ends of the earth. As if it were plainly said; He who rules over the highest things, forsakes not even the most remote. Because His watchful rule is so directed towards the greatest concerns, as not to be kept from those which are little. For He Who is every where present, and every where equal, is not unlike Himself, even in unlike circumstances.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII, 604Patristic
- Job 38:25
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
Commentary on Job 38:251 voice
Who hath given a course for the most violent shower, and a way for the sounding thunder? If, as we said before, that persecution in the regions of Judaea is designated by the name of divided heat, because this very fierceness of persecution kept not from their office of preaching, through any fear, the holy preachers, who were assisted by the gift from on high, He fitly subjoins; Who hath given a course for the most violent showers? As if He were saying, Except Myself.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX, 604Patristic
- Job 38:35
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Commentary on Job 38:351 voice
Wilt thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee, Here we are? 6. For lightnings come forth from the clouds, just as wonderful works are displayed by holy preachers. Who, as we have often said, are therefore wont to be called 'clouds,' because they flash forth with miracles, and rain with words.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXX, 604Patristic
- Psalms 18:14
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
Commentary on Psalms 18:141 voice
"Lightnings." Here he describes the movement of lightnings and compares them to an arrow on account of the vehemence of the wind by which they are moved. "And he scattered them," namely the sinners, who are sometimes moved by them; for according to the diversity …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
- Psalms 77:18
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Commentary on Psalms 77:182 voices
The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and they feared. For the moment let us speak according to the letter; let us cling to the earth for the sake of the simpler folk. When the people passed through the Red Sea and through the Jordan, the waters understood their Creator, and the people did not understand. And the depths were troubled. "The sea saw, and fled: the Jordan was turned back." The great sound of the waters. "The clouds shook out the waters," it has in the Hebrew. The clouds gave forth their voice.
Jerome· Homily 10, on Psalm 76, 420Patristic
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 78:48
He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Commentary on Psalms 78:481 voice
"He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their substance to the fire." Symmachus renders it: "Who gave up their cattle to the plague, and their possessions to birds."
Hippolytus of Rome· Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On Psalm LXXVII. Or LXXVIII., 235Patristic
- Psalms 97:4
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
Commentary on Psalms 97:41 voice
His lightnings have shone upon the world. The philosophers say that lightnings are generated from the collision of clouds. For unless the sound is first heard, the lightnings are not seen. This is said also of the flint-stone: that unless they are struck together, the fire in the middle does not come forth. This we have said according to the natural history, and we are still speaking to little ones. We have therefore stated the nature of things, so that from the nature of things we may bring forth something spiritual.
Jerome· Homily 24, on Psalm 96, 420Patristic
- Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Commentary on Psalms 135:71 voice
The sky above, the earth and ocean's mightydepths, The orbs presiding over day and over night, The winds and tempests, lightnings, showers of rain and clouds, The polar stars, the star of evening, heat and snow, The fountains, hoarfrosts, precious veins of ore and streams, …
Prudentius· BOOK OF THE MARTYRS' CROWNS 10:325-35, 410Patristic
- Psalms 144:6
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
Commentary on Psalms 144:61 voice
Flash forth the lightning, and you shall scatter them. See what he says. He did not say, you shall destroy them: but, you shall scatter them. We read in Genesis, at that time when they were building the tower, God says: 'Come, let us descend and confound their tongue' lest at some time they should have agreement among themselves; but let them be scattered abroad, it profits them.
Jerome· Homily 54, on Psalm 143, 420Patristic
- Jeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Commentary on Jeremiah 10:132 voices
(Verse 13.) By his voice, he gives a multitude of waters in the sky, and he lifts up the clouds from the ends of the earth. He made lightning for rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. He gives a multitude of waters in the heavens at his voice. For all the doctrine of the Lord flows from the heavens, as David says: You will separate God a voluntary rain for your inheritance, and it was weakened, but you have perfected it. And he raises or brings forth the clouds from the ends of the earth (Psal.
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
Who would doubt that God has made these things, who spoke through the Prophet, saying: 'Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance, who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or who has been his counselor or instructed Him?' (Isaiah 40:12). We also read elsewhere: Because it holds the circuit of the earth and has made the earth as nothing.
Ambrose of Milan· The Six Days of Creation 1.3.9, 397Patristic
- Jeremiah 51:16
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Commentary on Jeremiah 51:161 voice
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. See Gill on Jer 10:13.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ezekiel 1:13
In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
- Ezekiel 1:14
The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.
Commentary on Ezekiel 1:141 voice
But the burning coals and the lamps running among the animals are interpreted from that place of Isaiah: And the fire shall eat the flesh as the grass, and I will sanctify them in the burning fire (Isaiah 5:24). And it is written elsewhere: Burning coals shall fall upon them (Psalm 140:11). And against deceitful lips, it is said in another psalm: 'What shall be given to you, or what shall be added to you, to a deceitful tongue? Sharp arrows of the powerful, with coals of desolation.' (Psalm 119:3-4).
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
- Daniel 10:6
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Commentary on Daniel 10:61 voice
Verse 6. "And his body was like chrysolite." For "chrysolite," one of the twelve gems inserted in the oracular breastplate of the high priest, the Hebrew has trs'ys (tharsis) , a word which Theodotion and Symmachus simply left unchanged in transcription; but the Septuagint called it "the sea," according to the usage in the Psalms: "With a violent gale Thou dashest the ships of Tharsis in pieces," i.e., "the ships of the sea" (Psalm 48:7).
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER TEN, 420Patristic
- Nahum 2:4
The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.
Commentary on Nahum 2:42 voices
(Verse 3 and following) The shield of the strong is ablaze, the men of the army in scarlet; the fiery chariots are on the day of its preparation; and the drivers are asleep, they are disturbed on the journey, the chariots collide in the streets. Their appearance is like torches, like lightning running to and fro. They will remember their mighty men, they will rush on their way, they will quickly climb its walls, and the shelter will be prepared.
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic
The chariots shall rage in the streets,.... In the streets of Nineveh when taken; where they shall be drove in a furious manner from place to place, the men in them breathing out slaughter and death wherever they came. Kimchi understands this of the chariots of the Ninevites; who shall drive about in them in the streets of the city like madmen; not daring to go out to fight the enemy, being mightier and more numerous than they.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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