Ezekiel 1:13

A slight correction of the text after LXX. is necessary in this verse, which should read as R.V. marg., and in the midst of the living creatures was an appearance like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The description of the living creatures themselves was finished in Ezekiel 1:12; in this verse the prophet refers to the fire that was between them (ch. Ezekiel 10:2; Ezekiel 10:6 seq.). The whole phenomenon represents not only a chariot on which Jehovah rides, but also a throne on which he sits and a place where he abides. Hence as in Isaiah 6 there is an altar with fire. With the idea of Isaiah, however, the prophet has combined the other that coals of fire accompany the manifestation of Jehovah (Psalms 18:13), and the altar fire gives out flashes like the lightning. This again has suggested the combinations in Revelation 6:9; Revelation 8:3-5.