Ezekiel 1:16

the colour of a beryl Heb. tarshish-stone, so named from Tartessus in Spain, in which country it was found. It is the chrysolite of the ancients, the topaz of the moderns, a stone of a golden colour. Colour is "glance." The words "and their work" in first clause, and "and their appearance" in second clause are wanting in LXX.

wheel in the middle of a wheel This was their work or construction; eachof the four wheels (ch. Ezekiel 10:10) had this appearance. What seems meant is that the wheels had such a construction that they could run not only, say, east and west, as an ordinary wheel, but also (without turning) north and south. This could be in no other way than by each wheel being double, consisting of two wheels cutting one another in planes at right angles. Thus in whatever direction the chariot moved four wheels appeared to be running in that direction.