Ezekiel 10 - Introduction
_THE VISION OF THE COALS OF FIRE, TO BE SCATTERED OVER THE CITY. THE VISION OF THE CHERUBIMS._ _Before Christ 594._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE VISION OF THE COALS OF FIRE, TO BE SCATTERED OVER THE CITY. THE VISION OF THE CHERUBIMS._ _Before Christ 594._... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN UNDER THE CHERUB— Houbigant very properly reads the first verse in a parenthesis; for this evidently connects with the last of the preceding chapter. This part of the vision represented the burning of the city by the Chaldeans. The reader will observe, that the representation of the cherubim gi... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE GLORY— _For the glory of the Lord had gone up._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FORM OF A MAN'S HAND— These hands of men, says Houbigant, appear to signify the human aids and counsels which God makes use of to effect the great purposes of his own divine will.... [ Continue Reading ]
A BERYL STONE— _A crysolite stone._... [ Continue Reading ]
AS FOR THE WHEELS, &C.— _And he cried unto them in my hearing, Run._ The command is given to the four wheels in the singular number, because the motion of the four was one and the same. See Houbigant. The wheels were animated, therefore addressed; because capable of obeying the great charioteer, cha... [ Continue Reading ]
FACE OF A CHERUB— Or, _Face of an ox._ Houbigant reads the sentences in the next verse thus: _These are the same living creatures which I saw by the river Chebar; and the cherubims,_ &c. Ezekiel 10:16. _And when they went, the wheels,_ &c. EZEKIEL 10:20. _AND I KNEW THAT THEY WERE THE CHERUBIMS_— Th... [ Continue Reading ]