Reading into it too much?

It's very interesting how Burroughs stresses that Aaron's sons were renowned & with such status and worth. He reminds us over & over again how esteemed these men were in the Israelite nation. Yet THEY were the ones who were put under severe judgement by God. They had been put to higher standards and therefore a higher, more drastic consequence. On page 25, Burroughs states, "...but it did not appear what fire for it did not so much as consume their clothes nor their bodies but went through all and struck them dead, and nobody could tell how." It does not state in the Bible that the fire was invisible or unable to be seen. It also does not state that this fire did not consume them. All it states was that there was something left after this fire to carry out. The tunics may have been charred & burnt with holes in it. There still would have been a tunic & body to carry out. -Leviticus 10:5