Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Ezekiel 1:16
The. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And the".
The. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And the".
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 Wheels The prophet saw four wheels beside the four living creatures, one wheel beside each creature. The wheels touched the ground, and were all alike, having the appearance of tarshish-ston...
_the colour of a beryl_ Heb. _tarshish-stone_, so named from Tartessus in Spain, in which country it was found. It is the chrysolite of the ancients, the topaz of the moderns, a stone of a golden colo...
BEHOLD ONE WHEEL UPON THE EARTH— The prophet now proceeds to describe the wheels of this chariot borne by the living creatures. "Now, as I _contemplated_ these living creatures (says he) _there appear...
BERYL—WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF A WHEEL— _Chrysolite—wheel put cross within another wheel._...
C. The Wheels 1:15-21 TRANSLATION (15) Now as I saw the living creatures, behold one wheel on the earth beside each of the living creatures on its four sides. (16) The appearance of the wheels and th...
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel....
§ 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...
A WHEEL IN THE MIDDLE OF (RV 'within') A WHEEL] an obscure expression. One explanation is that every wheel had another joined to it at right angles, so that the compound wheel would appear thus from...
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...
THEIR WORK WAS LIKE UNTO THE COLOUR OF A BERYL. — “Work” is used in the sense of workmanship or construction; and “beryl” here, and in Ezekiel 10:9, is not the precious stone of a green colour which w...
מַרְאֵ֨ה הָ אֹופַנִּ֤ים וּ מַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ כְּ ע
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...
The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like the colour of a (k) beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel....
_Sea; sky blue. Hebrew, "Tharsis," which Symmachus renders "the hyacinth;" a precious stone, Exodus xxviii. 20. (Calmet) --- Midst. The evangelists and New Testament agree perfectly with the Old. (St....
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...
Now the Prophet uses the plural number, and says, there were four wheels. He says, the color was like a precious stone. Jerome translates _it “sea,” _because the sea which looks towards Cilicia with r...
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...
THE APPEARANCE OF THE WHEELS, AND THEIR WORK, [WAS] LIKE UNTO THE COLOUR OF A BERYL,.... Which is a precious stone; see Exodus 28:20; the Syriac version renders it a chrysolite; the Arabic, a jasper;...
The appearance of the wheels and their work [was] like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel...
_Now as I beheld_, &c. The prophet here proceeds to relate what he saw besides the living creatures, which he had described in the foregoing verses. _Behold one wheel upon the earth beside the living...
The appearance of the wheels and their work, their make-up. their workmanship and shape, WAS LIKE UNTO THE COLOR OF A BERYL, of the chrysolite, which had a yellow color, as of clear fire; AND THEY FOU...
The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures....
15-25 Providence, represented by the wheels, produces changes. Sometimes one spoke of the wheel is uppermost, sometimes another; but the motion of the wheel on its own axletree is regular and steady....
THE APPEARANCE; the form in which these wheels were seen. THEIR WORK; all that was wrought, whether engraved or otherwise, was of one colour. THE COLOUR OF A BERYL, Heb. _tharshish_, a sea-green; some...
Ezekiel 1:16 appearance H4758 wheels H212 workings H4639 color H5869 beryl H8658 four H702 same H259 likeness H1823 app
‘Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon earth beside the living creatures, for each of their four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the colour of topaz,...
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...
_A wheel in the middle of a wheel._ GOD IN HUMAN ACTIVITY By a wheel within a wheel God governs and makes all things work together for good to those who love Him: all pleasant and all painful things...
_One wheel upon the earth by the living creatures._ NO STABILITY IN THE WORLD The four living creatures denoted the four parts of the world, and their agencies in them and by them: now are presented...
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 10:6; Ephesians 3:10; Exodus 39:13; Ezekiel 10:10; Ezekiel 10:9
Work — All that was wrought, whether engraved or otherwise was of one colour. Beryl — A sea green. One likeness — The same for dimensions, colour, frame, and motion. In the middle — It is probable, th...
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...