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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1:11 and (a-4) Or 'So were their faces; and.'...
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§ 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...
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STRETCHED UPWARD] RV 'separate above.'...
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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...
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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...
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וּ פְנֵיהֶ֕ם וְ כַנְפֵיהֶ֥ם
פְּרֻדֹ֖ות מִ לְ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
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STRETCHED UPWARD:
Or, divided above...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 1:11 faces H6440 wings H3671 stretched H6504 (H8803) upward
H4605 two H8147 one H376 touched H2266 ...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 10:16; Ezekiel 10:19; Isaiah 6:2...
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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....
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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...