20 Fire kept the mastery of its own power in water, and water forgot its quenching nature. (WEB) 21 On the contrary, flames didn’t consume flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, neither did they melt the crystalline grains of ambrosial food that were melted easily. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 19:20–21
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