Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 15:17 - 15:17
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
By which symbol God designed to represent, either,
1. The future state of Abram’s seed; the
smoking furnace signifying Israel’s misery in the iron furnace of Egypt, as it is called, Jer_11:4; and the
burning lamp noting their deliverance, or light shining out of darkness. Or,
2. His own presence; for God is called a consuming fire, Heb_12:29; and both smoke and fire are elsewhere mentioned as the signs and means of God’s appearance. See Exo_3:2 19:9,16,18 20:18. And this sense seems to be favoured by the following words, it being the custom of persons entering into covenant to pass between such pieces as hath been said; and because God hath no body which could visibly do so, therefore he doth it in this type or shadow.