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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Of this love that is begun here to be perfected from the sight of the Lord in the eternal kingdom Isaiah rightly speaks, saying, "The Lord lives, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem." It is, however, greater to be a furnace than a fire because a fire can also be small, but a larger flame is kindled in a furnace. Zion truly is said to be speculation but Jerusalem the vision of peace. Truly we sometimes catch a glimpse of our peace here in order there later to see it fully. …
Bede
If the breads of the furnace that were baked in secret signify the interior devotion of the mind of the faithful confirmed by the fire of charity, breads which were also commanded by the law to be offered in the sacrifice of the Lord, it is most fitting that the hearts which were made to burn constantly with the flame of intimate love and virtue and to beget words are symbolized through the furnaces in which the same breads were baked. …
Thomas Aquinas
697. Third, he sets out the strengthening of both: the Lord has said it, whose fire, burning the Assyrians, above: the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame (Isa 10:17); or the fire on the altar of incense; his furnace, on the altar of holocausts: the fire on the altar shall always burn (Lev 6:12); or the fire of charity burning imperfectly in the Church militant, but a furnace burning perfectly in the Church triumphant. 698. …
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