George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 1:15
Faces. One wheel crossed another at right angles, so that it was ready to move in any direction, (ver. 17.; Calmet) like a globe. (Haydock)
Faces. One wheel crossed another at right angles, so that it was ready to move in any direction, (ver. 17.; Calmet) like a globe. (Haydock)
Verse Ezekiel 1:15. _ONE WHEEL UPON THE EARTH_] It seems at first view there were _four wheels_, one for each of the living creatures; that is, the creatures were compound, so were the wheels, for th...
Translate it: “one wheel upon the earth by” each of “the liviing creatures” on his four sides (i. e. on the four sides of each of the living creatures). There was a wheel to “each” of the living creat...
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...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech Asterismes. App-6....
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...
_beheld the living creatures_ lit. _and I saw the living creatures and behold_. LXX. reads, _and I saw and behold_precisely as ch. Ezekiel 8:2; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 10:9. _by the living creatures_ BE...
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...
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...
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...
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. BEHOLD ONE WHEEL. The "dreadful height" of the wheel () indicates the gigantic, t...
§ 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...
One wheel.. with his four FACES] RV 'one wheel.. for each of the four faces thereof,' four wheels in all....
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...
BEHOLD ONE WHEEL UPON THE EARTH BY THE LIVING CREATURES. — The prophet sees this while still looking intently upon the cherubim — “ as I beheld the living creatures “ — showing that it was still a par...
וָ אֵ֖רֶא הַ חַיֹּ֑ות וְ הִנֵּה֩ אֹופַ֨ן
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...
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...
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...
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...
Now the Prophet descends to the wheels which were joined to the living creatures. Each had a double wheel, as we shall see afterwards — that is, one wheel rolling upon another. The Prophet did not not...
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...
NOW AS I BEHELD THE LIVING CREATURES,.... While he had the vision of them, and when he was considering their form and likeness, and what should be the meaning of them: BEHOLD, ONE WHEEL UPON THE EART...
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. Ver. 15. _Behold one wheel upon the earth._] Things here below are exceedingly muta...
_Now as I beheld_, &c. The prophet here proceeds to relate what he saw besides the living creatures, which he had described in the foregoing verses. _Behold one wheel upon the earth beside the living...
The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures....
Now, as I beheld the living creatures, which were associated with the menacing cloud and must therefore be thought of as being elevated above tire earth, BEHOLD ONE WHEEL UPON THE EARTH, that is, a un...
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....
NOW; or, _and_; it is a transition from the former to the latter part of the vision. I BEHELD; considered and observed. BEHOLD; it calls for our attention. ONE WHEEL; or a certain wheel of spherical f...
Ezekiel 1:15 looked H7200 (H8799) creatures H2416 a H259 wheel H212 earth H776 beside H681 creature H2416 four...
‘Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon earth beside the living creatures, for each of their four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of topaz,...
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...
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...
_One wheel upon the earth by the living creatures._ NO STABILITY IN THE WORLD The four living creatures denoted the four parts of the world, and their agencies in them and by them: now are presented...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
Daniel 7:9; Ezekiel 1:19; Ezekiel 1:6; Ezekiel 10:13; Ezekiel 10:9;...
Living creatures — By each of the living creatures stood one wheel, so that they were four in number, according to the number of living creatures. Four faces — By this it appears, each wheel had its f...
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...