Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 1:6
In the Revelation of John each “beast” has its own distinctive character, here each unites in itself the four characters; there each has six wings, like the Seraphim Isaiah 6:2, here only four.
In the Revelation of John each “beast” has its own distinctive character, here each unites in itself the four characters; there each has six wings, like the Seraphim Isaiah 6:2, here only four.
Verse Ezekiel 1:6. _EVERY ONE HAD FOUR FACES_] There were _four_ several figures of these living creatures, and each of these figures had _four_ distinct faces: but as the face of the _man_ was that...
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...
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...
The four living creatures These are described as having in general the human form; they were erect and had apparently two feet (Ezekiel 1:5_; Ezekiel 1:7_); they had four faces, one looking each way:...
_had four faces_ These were a man's in front of each, an eagle's opposite to this at the back of each; a lion's on the right hand of each, and the face of an ox on the left of each. Thus four differen...
EVERY ONE HAD FOUR WINGS— In the most ancient hieroglyphic writings, a supreme governor was designed by a man with four wings, and his lieutenants or princes by a man with two: and their being out-str...
B. The Cherubim 1:5-14 TRANSLATION (5) And from its midst the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they possessed the likeness of a man. (6) And each of them had four fac...
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. EVERY ONE HAD FOUR FACES. Not only were there four distinct living creatures, but each of the four had four faces, making sixteen in all....
§ 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...
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...
FOUR FACES. — The cherubim, being merely symbolical figures, are variously represented. Those placed in the Tabernacle and in the Temple of Solomon appear to have had only a single face; those describ...
וְ אַרְבָּעָ֥ה פָנִ֖ים לְ אֶחָ֑ת וְ אַרְבַּ֥ע
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...
Faces. This sometimes means shapes; and Pererius supposes that the animal had the head of a man, and the breast covered with lions' hair, the feet or round cloven hoofs of an ox, and the wings of an e...
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...
He now comes to the heads and wings themselves. Many suppose that each animal had four heads, and then that four appearances belonged to each head; others extend the wings much further, because they a...
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...
AND OR BUT EVERYONE HAD FOUR FACES,.... Which are described, Ezekiel 1:10. The Targum multiplies the faces in a strange monstrous manner, paraphrasing the words thus, "each had four faces, and there...
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. Ver. 6. _And every one had four faces._] To set forth, saith an expositor, that the power of angels is exercised about all creatures. It is...
_Out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures_ Termed cherubim, Ezekiel 9:3; Ezekiel 9:10. throughout. These seem to have been a hieroglyphical representation of the holy angels...
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings, similarly as the seraphim in Isaiah 6:2 had six wings apiece....
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
1-14 It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the fulness of light and power, by the Holy Spirit...
AND EVERY ONE of those four living creatures which appeared to the prophet had four faces: this hieroglyphic, though it seems to present us with a monstrous sight, yet does not unbecome the Divine Wis...
Ezekiel 1:6 one H259 four H702 faces H6440 one H259 four H702 wings H3671 And every one had four faces -...
‘And out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance. They had the likeness of a man. And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wing...
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...
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...
1 Kings 6:24; Exodus 25:20; Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 1:15; Ezekiel 1:8;
Wings — With two they flew, denoting the speed of their obedience; and with two they covered their body, denoting their reverence....
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...