The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: covetousness, which is idolatry:
COL 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children
of disobedience:
COL 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
COL 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
COL 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man
with his deeds;
COL 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him:
COL 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
EZR 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of
Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
Levite helped them.
EZR 10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the
priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their
fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in
the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
EZR 10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
wives by the first day of the first month.
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