Meanings of purify fire in English

We'll cleanse the abominations and those who bring them with purifying fire.

The Civil War swept like a purifying fire through the land.

My discovery, Mr. Spinrobin, will run through the world like a purifying fire.

Yet he had not passed through the purifying fire of misfortune in vain!

This revival was like a purifying fire to our subject.

Purifying fire, burn my wretched body with all its sins!

And so the great Lord Esketh was left alone with the coolies and the all-devouring, purifying fire.

She was one of those whose spotless souls need not the purifying fire of a long earthly life.

That would be a part of his expiation, the purifying fire that may consume the dross of his nature.

It was as a purifying fire that turned to ashes all the evil of desires that my heart had held.

'Therefore, burn, thou holy pain, thou purifying fire!'

It was because that conviction and confession sprang in the prophet's consciousness that the seraph winged his way with the purifying fire in his hands.