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Verse Ezekiel 1:18. _AS FOR THEIR RINGS_] The _strakes_ which form the
_rim_ or _periphery_.
_THEY WERE DREADFUL_] They were exceedingly great in their diameter,
so that it was tremendous to look fro...
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RINGS - The felloes (circumference) of the wheels: they were both high
and terrible. The “eyes” may have been no more than dazzling spots
adding to their brilliancy. But it seems more likely that they...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24)
Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet
_ 1. The...
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EZEKIEL 1-3. EZEKIEL ENTERS UPON HIS MINISTRY.
Ezekiel 1:1. Ezekiel's Vision.
Ezekiel 1:1. Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his
ministry only after he has had a vision of God and a ca...
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HIGH. In the sense of sublimity....
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_so high that they were dreadful_ lit. _as for their rings, there was
height to them and there was fear to them;_R.V. they were high and
dreadful. The word "fear," however, nowhere means terribleness...
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The Four Wheels
The prophet saw four wheels beside the four living creatures, one
wheel beside each creature. The wheels touched the ground, and were
all alike, having the appearance of tarshish-ston...
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The theophany, or, vision of God
This is described first generally, as a whirlwind and great cloud
coming from the North, with a luminous splendour around it, due to a
fire sending out continuous fla...
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BEHOLD ONE WHEEL UPON THE EARTH— The prophet now proceeds to
describe the wheels of this chariot borne by the living creatures.
"Now, as I _contemplated_ these living creatures (says he) _there
appear...
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RINGS—RINGS— _Strakes._...
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C. The Wheels 1:15-21
TRANSLATION
(15) Now as I saw the living creatures, behold one wheel on the earth
beside each of the living creatures on its four sides. (16) The
appearance of the wheels and th...
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RINGS] RM 'felloes.'
20, 21. LIVING CREATURE] The group of four is spoken of as one....
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§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3)
Date, June-July, 592 b.c.
Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by
means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
ABOUT THIS BOOK
1. HISTORY
After the death of King Solomon, the *I...
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THEIR RINGS. — The same word is used twice in this verse, and means
what we call the _felloes._ “They were both high and terrible,”
_i.e.,_ they had both these characteristics, but not, as seems to be...
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וְ גַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ן וְ גֹ֥בַהּ לָהֶ֖ם וְ
יִרְאָ֣ה
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THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD
Ezekiel 1:1
IT might be hazardous to attempt, from the general considerations
advanced in the last two Chapter s, to form a conception of Ezekiel's
state of mind during...
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A VISION OF GOD'S MAJESTY
Ezekiel 1:1-21
A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant
blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four
living creatures became...
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The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and
falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and
the second the voice he heard.
Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapter...
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_Eyes, like Argus, or the tail of a peacock. (Calmet) --- The eye is
sometimes put for a colour. (Grotius)_...
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It is worthy the Reader's closest attention, how often during this
account the appearance of a man is spoken of. Was it, (for I only ask
the question, and do not presume to decide), to lead the Prophe...
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What he says about the circumferences of the wheels may seem
superfluous, but he refers to the second clause of the verse, where he
says, that these circumferences were full of eyes. Here, then, he no...
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In chapter 1 we find a date which refers to the year of Josiah's
passover, but with what intent I do not know. It has been thought that
the thirty years relate to the jubilee. On this point I cannot s...
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AS FOR THEIR RINGS, THEY WERE SO HIGH, THAT THEY WERE DREADFUL,....
The circles and circumferences of them were "high": which may denote
the visibility and extensiveness of the churches of Christ, esp...
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As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and
their rings [were] full of eyes round about them four.
Ver. 18. _As for their rings they were so high._] _Apsides earum tam
amplae s...
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_When they went_ Namely, the wheels; _they went upon their four sides_
The wheels being supposed spherical as a globe, by an exact framing of
two wheels one in the other, the four semicircles, which w...
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As for their rings, the felloes of the wheels, THEY WERE SO HIGH THAT
THEY WERE DREADFUL, on account of the effect of sublimity; AND THEIR
RINGS WERE FULL OF EYES ROUND ABOUT THEM FOUR, this fact intr...
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The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures....
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RINGS:
Or, strakes...
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15-25 Providence, represented by the wheels, produces changes.
Sometimes one spoke of the wheel is uppermost, sometimes another; but
the motion of the wheel on its own axletree is regular and steady....
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THEIR RINGS; the circumference of the wheels, the whole compass of the
wheels, or the fellows (as a carter calls the whole roundle of his
wheels). THEY WERE SO HIGH; the two strakes, the thickness of...
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Ezekiel 1:18 rims H1354 high H1363 awesome H3374 rims H1354 full H4392
eyes H5869 around H5439 four H702...
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‘As for their rims (‘rings') they were high and frightening, and
they four had their rims full of eyes round about.'
This may suggest the huge size of the wheels as it sped on, ‘high
and frightening'....
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CONTENTS: Vision of the glory.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, Ezekiel, Jehoiachin, (Ezekiel
1:26).
CONCLUSION: While no man has seen God at any time, many have had
visions of Him, displays of...
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Ezekiel 1:1. _In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and fifth
day of the month._ The Jews were accustomed to reckon time from great
and auspicious events, as the call of Abraham, the exodus from...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 1:1 Inaugural Vision. The story of
Ezekiel’s call as a prophet is the most complex of all the
“prophetic call stories” in the OT. It is also one of the most
carefully structure...
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2. THE VIEW GIVEN TO EZEKIEL OF “THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF THE
LORD” (Chap. Ezekiel 1:4)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:4. THE STORM-CLOUD. “A WHIRLWIND,”
a tempest such as Job perceived (Ezekiel 38:...
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EXPOSITION
For the life of the prophet prior to the vision which this chapter
relates, and which constituted his call to that office, see
Introduction.
EZEKIEL 1:1
NOW; literally, _and. _The use of...
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Ezekiel 1:4. _And I looked, and behold a whirlwind coming from the
north, a great cloud, and a fire kindling itself, and a brightness
round about it (the cloud), and from out of it (the fire) like the...
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Shall we turn at this time to the prophecy of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel said,
It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the
fifth day of the month (Ezekiel 1:1),
So that would be July th...
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Ezekiel 10:12; Isaiah 55:9; Job 37:22; Proverbs 15:3; Psalms 77:16;
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The rings — The circumference of the wheels. Dreadful — Their very
height imprest a fear on the beholder. Them four — Every one of the
four wheels. How fitly do the wheels, their motion, their height,...
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Is this a manifestation of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence?
PROBLEM: Ezekiel speaks here of “living creatures” whose faces
were in “the likeness of a man” which moved “like a flash of
lightnin...