Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 1:16

16. While he was yet speaking , there came also another, and said, The Fire of God is falln from Heaven , and hath burnt up the Sheep and the Servants, and consumed them, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Before he could have time to compose his disturbed Mind, and to digest his former loss, or indeed to swallow his Spittle, as he expresseth it, Ch. 7. 19.

A terrible flame of Fire sent from God in an extraordinary manner; to intimate that both God and Men were his Enemies, and all things conspired to his Ruine.

i. e. From the Air which is oft called Heaven, as hath been noted again and again, whereof Satan is the Prince, Eph. 2. 2.

Marginal references: Or, A [illegible: 1 word] Fire.