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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 1:8

Under — Their power and manner of exerting it is secret and invisible. Sides — On each side of the chariot one of these living creatures flood, and so on each side hands were ready to act as they were moved. They four — It is doubled to confirm the truth and certainty of the thing.

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See also Ezekiel 1:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 1:8. THEY HAD _THE HANDS OF A MAN UNDER THEIR WINGS_] I doubt much whether the arms be not here represented as all covered with feathers, so that they had the appearance of wings, only t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Or, “They had the hands of a man under their wings on all four sides, just as they had wings and faces on all four sides.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HANDS. Hebrew text reads "hand". Some codices, with two early printed editions and Hebrew text margin, read "hands "(plural), followed by Authorized Version and Revised Version. The sing. is to be pre...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Each living creature appears to have had four hands or arms, cf. ch. Ezekiel 10:21. The last words of Ezekiel 1:8 must be joined with Ezekiel 1:9: "and their faces and their wings, of them four their...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. THEY HAD THE HANDS OF A MAN - the hands of each were the hands of a man. The h...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    § 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE HANDS OF A MAN. — Implying, of course, also human arms. This particular adds to the generally human appearance of the cherubim, yet we must understand (see Ezekiel 1:11) that there were four hands...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _וִ_†_ידֵ֣י_† אָדָ֗ם מִ תַּ֨חַת֙ כַּנְפֵיהֶ֔ם עַ֖ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Wings. Their arms were covered with feathers, and the hand appeared at the extremity; or they had four arms under the wings, chap. x. 8. They all came from the shoulders, so as to correspond with the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now the Prophet says: _hands were under their wings _Since hands are the principal instruments of action, we know that all actions are often denoted by this word: whence hands, either pure or defiled,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND [THEY HAD] THE HANDS OF A MAN UNDER THEIR WINGS ON THEIR FOUR SIDES,.... "Hands of a man" denote action, according to knowledge; ministers of the Gospel are men of practice and business, as well a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Ver. 8. _And they had the hands of a man under their wings._] Faces, wings, han...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And their feet were straight feet_ Emblematical probably of simplicity and uprightness, or of the steadiness of their obedience. _And the sole of their feet like the sole of a calf's foot_ To signify...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, the wings thus being fastened at the shoulders, WHENCE THE HANDS PROCEEDED LIKEWISE; AND THEY FOUR HAD THEIR FACES AND THEIR WING...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY; each of the four living creatures. HAD THE HANDS: hands in every language, especially in the Oriental, imply power; and being the chief instruments of action, are here ascribed to these active i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 1:8 hands H3027 man H120 wings H3671 four H702 sides H7253 four H702 faces H6440 wings H3671...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The hands of a man under their wings._ SUPPRESSION OF SELF We are to do God’s works without noise or notice of ourselves. Angels, that are agents for God, have their hands under their wings; their a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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:...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 10:18; Ezekiel 10:2; Ezekiel 10:21; Ezekiel 10:7; Ezekiel 10:8

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    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...

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