Psalms 83:14

Psa 83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

Ver. 14. As the fire burneth a wood ] Maxime quando a vento flabellatur , when blown up by a fierce wind it soon turneth a wood into a waste.

And as the flame setteth, the mountains on fire ] Those sulphury mountains, such as Etna, Vesuvius, Peitra mala, a mountain in the highest part of the Apennines, which perpetually burneth, say travellers, Il Mercurio Italico, 178.