For — There is a perfect harmony between second causes in their dependence on, and subjection to, the one infinite, wise, good, holy, and just God. The spirit of God directs all the creatures, upper and lower, so that they shall serve the divine purpose. Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of providence, which are full of eyes.
are a repetition of the general description of the nature and connection of the various parts of the vision, and this is the more appropriate as showing why they were regarded as “one living creature”...
Ezekiel 10:1. Once more the glory vision appears. The linen clothed man who had done the marking in the previous chapter is now executing judgment. Who is He? Evidently more than an angel. That he is...
This splendid passage is followed by a description of the Divine chariot (Ezekiel 10:9) which does little more than duplicate the description in Ezekiel 1:15, and which, to a modern taste, seems of th...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
Cf. ch. Ezekiel 1:19....
_lift up themselves_ WERE LIFTED UP with them....
C. The Throne-Chariot of God 10:9-17 TRANSLATION (9) And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, a wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub, and the appearance...
When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. WHEN THEY STOOD, THESE STOOD; AND WHEN THEY WERE LIFT...
§ 3. A VISION OF JERUSALEM'S SIN AND DOOM (EZEKIEL 8-11) Date, August-September, 591 b.c. A year and two months after his call to be a prophet, Ezekiel was visited in his house by the elders of the J...
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_ CHAPTER 10 COALS OF FIRE OVER THE CITY – EZEKIEL 10:1-8 V1 I
בְּ עָמְדָ֣ם יַעֲמֹ֔דוּ וּ בְ רֹומָ֖ם יֵרֹ֣ומ
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
The prophet next described the process of judgment. First, a preliminary vision was granted to him. The man with the inkhorn who had passed through the midst of the city, setting his mark on the sighi...
When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the (g) spirit of the living being [was] in them. (g) There was one consent between the cherubim...
_Life. They were not mere machines; (Haydock) or they were pushed forward by an impetuous wind._...
The glory of the Lord going up, and departing, which is twice spoken of in this short chapter, evidently testifies the importance of the thing. But, except we interpret it with an eye to the withdrawi...
As he just said that the wheels were obedient to the movement of the living creatures, so he now says that they ceased with them. But in this place it seems as if some incongruity might arise: for it...
In chapter 10 the whole city is given up to be consumed. The glory of Jehovah presides over the judgment and commands it. He stands upon the threshold of His house which He fills with His glory in jud...
WHEN THEY STOOD, [THESE] STOOD,.... When the one were inactive, lifeless, and without motion, making no progress in knowledge, experience, and practice, the other were so likewise; Ezekiel 1:21; AND...
When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them. Ver. 17. _When they stood._] See Ezekiel 1:21 ....
_And the cherubims were lifted up_ To attend upon the divine glory wherever it went, and particularly at its removal from the temple. _This is the living creature_, &c. Here it is spoken of as only on...
THE REMOVAL OF JEHOVAH FROM HIS TEMPLE...
When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also; for the spirit of the living creature was in them, the expression here used collectively, as in many instan...
LIVING: Or, of life...
8-22 Ezekiel sees the working of Divine providence in the government of the lower world, and the affairs of it. When God is leaving a people in displeasure, angels above, and all events below, furthe...
These two verses are explained, EZEKIEL 1:20, which see. A perfect harmony between second causes in their dependence on and subjection to the one infinite, wise, good, holy, and just God....
Ezekiel 10:17 stood H5975 (H8800) stood H5975 (H8799) up H7311 (H8800) up H7426 (H8735) spirit...
‘And the cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the River Chebar. And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them, and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount...
CONTENTS: Visions of the altar fire scattered over Jerusalem. Description of the cherubim. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God's glory and government infinitely transcend all the brigh...
Ezekiel 10:1. _Behold, in the firmament there appeared as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of a throne._ This is the vision that was seen by the river Chebar, but now the vision opens in th...
_When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also._ FEET AND WINGS Flying creatures have wings for the air and feet for the ground. This touch of nature is...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 10:1 Two actions are interwoven here: the second (visionary) phase of city destruction (vv. Ezekiel 10:1), and the further withdrawal of the glory of God from the temple (vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 10:9 While this section is mostly description, the action in vv. Ezekiel 10:18 is crucial. At the THRESHOLD (v....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 10:9. The description of the cherubim and of their movements is similar to, but independent of, that given in chap. 1. Ezekiel is not prostrated as at first, and seems to se...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 10:1, EZEKIEL 10:2 THEN I LOOKED, etc. There follows on the work of judgment another theophany, like that of Ezekiel 1:15.
CHAPTER 10. THE VISION OF THE COALS OF FIRE. As soon as the prophet's attention was withdrawn from what had for the time completely absorbed it, the proceedings connected with the preservation of the...
And then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament [the heaven] that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a thro...
Ezekiel 1:12; Ezekiel 1:20; Ezekiel 1:21; Genesis 2:7; Revelation 11:11