Rabbi Isaac the smith interpreted homiletically to teach that God has taken responsibility to rebuild the Temple, as God allowed the fire of man's sin to go out of Zion to destroy it, as reports, "He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations thereof," and God will nonetheless rebuild them, as reports, "For I, says the Lord, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her."