1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Chronicles 21:26 *And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace-offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him, by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.

2 Paralipomenon 3:1.
Fire, to testify his approbation. (Worthington; Tirinus) See Genesis 4:4., and 2 Paralipomenon 7:1. (Calmet) --- This altar represented the cross, on which the Victim of our reconciliation [Jesus Christ] was offered. (Du Hamel)