Exodus 3 as an experience Neville reports having had - in subways, on the stage - rather than a scene he expounds. The whole being becomes a flame and you see it; the area is ablaze and you are the centre of the entire burning, and yet nothing is consumed. He is precise about the kind of fire: not a gas jet with a constant flame, but a moving flame, like spirit - pour brandy over a plum pudding and light it and the whole thing becomes alive and moves all over. The bush burned and was not consumed for the same reason. And the voice that seems to come from the bush comes from the depths of the soul: it is written so that a reader will think a man heard words tumbling out of a shrub.