Note b — NOTES TO CHAPTER IV.
T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney translation
In our time the door of the Sepulchre is closed, after a Greek bishop, who is called Bishop of the Fire, has entered. We do not know whether the miracle in present times is produced by a lamp concealed in the walls of the Sepulchre, or by a preparation of phosphorus: but they that wait for the appearance of the fire are as credulous, or pretend to be so, as the Christians of the time of Aretas.