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    Fintan

    FIN-tun

    Meaning

    White fire; Fair-haired

    Irish origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Fintan burns with holy fire — consuming, refining, purifying like fullers' soap, the white flame of God's holiness.

    Verses · King James Version

    “For our God is a consuming fire.”

    Hebrews 12:29

    “But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap.”

    Malachi 3:2

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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