Verse Ezekiel 1:13. Like burning coals of fire] The whole substance appeared to be of flame; and among them frequent coruscations of fire, like vibrating lamps, often emitting lightning, or rather sparks of fire, as we have seen struck out of strongly ignited iron in a forge. The flames might be something like what is called warring wheels in pyrotechny. They seemed to conflict together.
LAMPS - “like the appearance of” flames. Omit the “and” before “like.” The “bright flames” resembled “coals of fire.” IT WENT UP - i. e. “fire went up.”...
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...
LAMPS. the lamp; or, torch (singular) WENT FORTH. kept going forth....
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:...
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...
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...
LIKE THE APPEARANCE, &C.— _Like the appearance of lamps which went up and down among the living creatures._ That is, the fire moved itself up and down. Milton's expression is, "And careering fires bet...
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...
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright...
1:13 torches. (b-22) Or 'flames.'...
§ 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...
LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF LAMPS. — The word “and” before this phrase is not in the original, and should be omitted. The words are merely a further explanation. The cherubim were like burning coals of fir...
וּ דְמ֨וּת הַ חַיֹּ֜ות מַרְאֵיהֶ֣ם כְּ גַחֲלֵ
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...
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...
As I said yesterday, something divine ought to shine forth in this vision, because God set forth the face of a man and of an ox, of an eagle and of a lion, and in this he accommodates himself to the s...
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...
AS FOR THE LIKENESS OF THE LIVING CREATURES,.... That is, of their bodies; for their faces, feet, hands, and wings are described before: THEIR APPEARANCE [WAS] LIKE BURNING COALS OF FIRE: because of...
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, [and] like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bri...
_As for the likeness of the living creatures_ Their colour, or aspect; _their appearance was like burning coals_ They were inflamed by the Spirit of God with a holy zeal for his glory, and with indign...
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
As for the likeness of the living creatures, the impression made by their appearance in general, THEIR APPEARANCE WAS LIKE BURNING COALS OF FIRE, like kindled coals, AND LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF LAMPS,...
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...
He further describeth what he had more briefly spoken of EZEKIEL 1:6. There you had their shape and make, here you have their colour. THE LIKENESS; in which they were seen by the prophet. THEIR APPEAR...
Ezekiel 1:13 likeness H1823 creatures H2416 appearance H4758 burning H1197 (H8802) coals H1513 fire H784 appearance H4758
‘As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It went up and down among the living creatures, and the fire was bright,...
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...
Daniel 10:5; Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 1:7; Genesis 15:17; Matthew 28:3;...
The fire — This fire stood not still, but as the Hebrew is, Made itself walk up and down. It moved itself, which is too much to ascribe to creatures: God only moved all these living creatures....
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...