Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 1:11
Divided — So each face appeared distinct above the shoulders, and there the wings divided from each other were united to the body of the living creature.
Divided — So each face appeared distinct above the shoulders, and there the wings divided from each other were united to the body of the living creature.
THUS ... - Rather, And their faces and their wings were separated above. All four formed a whole, yet the upper parts of each, the heads and the wings (though touching), rose distinct from one another...
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...
_Thus_were _their faces_ This rendering is perhaps just possible, particularly if present text in Ezekiel 47:17-19 be accepted (which most scholars, however, alter according to Ezekiel 1:20). The word...
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:...
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...
AND THEIR WINGS WERE STRETCHED UPWARD— _And the wings of every one were parted above_ (in the act of flying): _two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies._...
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...
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. THEIR WINGS ... STRETCHED UPWARD; TWO WINGS OF EVERY...
1:11 and (a-4) Or 'So were their faces; and.'...
§ 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...
STRETCHED UPWARD] RV 'separate above.'...
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...
THUS WERE THEIR FACES: AND THEIR WINGS WERE STRETCHED UPWARD. — Rather, _and their wings and their faces were separated above._ The word never has the sense of stretched, but always that of separated...
וּ פְנֵיהֶ֕ם וְ כַנְפֵיהֶ֥ם פְּרֻדֹ֖ות מִ לְ
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. Septuagint, "wings:" and indeed it does not appear how their faces were stretched upwards, (Calmet) unless they looked earnestly that way; though, out of respect, they covered their faces with...
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 says, that _the faces as well as the wings were extended, _because the four faces proceeded from one body. Here then the Prophet says, that they are not united together, so that a fourfold form cou...
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...
THUS [WERE] THEIR FACES: AND THEIR WINGS [WERE] STRETCHED UPWARD,.... The former clause, "thus [were] their faces", either belongs to Ezekiel 1:10; and the meaning is, this, as now represented, was th...
Thus [were] their faces: and their wings [were] stretched upward; two [wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. Ver. 11. _And their wings were stretched upward....
_Their wings were stretched upward_ That is, two wings of each, namely, in a posture of flying, to show that they were always actively employed in executing God's commands. Some unite this clause with...
Thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upward, literally, "parted from above," the heads being set on four separate necks; TWO WINGS OF EVERY ONE WERE JOINED ONE TO ANOTHER, the ends of...
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
STRETCHED UPWARD: Or, divided above...
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...
THUS WERE THEIR FACES: if you make a full point at faces, it should seem better joined with the former verse, and this text will be more easy, for it is somewhat harsh to speak of faces stretched as w...
Ezekiel 1:11 faces H6440 wings H3671 stretched H6504 (H8803) upward H4605 two H8147 one H376 touched H2266 ...
‘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...
Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 10:16; Ezekiel 10:19; Isaiah 6:2...
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...