Revelation 1:15

fine brass Decidedly the most probable sense, though the etymology of the word is obscure. It looks like a compound of the Greek words for "brass" (or more accurately bronze) and "incense" the latter being borrowed from the Hebrew name, which comes from a root meaning "white." Perhaps the real meaning is "white brass," i.e. the Latin orichalcum(vid. Verg. Aen. XII. 87), which was like gold (Cic. Off. III. 23:92) i.e. perhaps was our "brass" as distinct from bronze. In Ezekiel 1:4; Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2 we have a word which probably (comparing ibid. Ezekiel 1:7; Ezekiel 40:3; Daniel 10:6) means the same, but which the LXX. translate electrummeaning perhaps by this not amber, but an alloy of gold with silver or other metal. Some think that sense suitable here, as symbolising the divine and human natures of our Lord.

as if they burned Read, as if it burned or rather with R. V. as if it had been refined which seems to prove that "incense" cannot be the sense of the word just discussed, as incense would be burned in a censer not a furnace.

his voice as Ezekiel 43:2.