As the 'cherub' was mentioned without any introduction in Ezekiel 9:3, the living chariot with all its parts now appears in the same way. It is not directly stated that the glorious Figure is on the throne. The 'glory' had left the chariot for the threshold of the Temple in Ezekiel 9:3, and is in th... [ Continue Reading ]
§ 3. A VISION OF JERUSALEM'S SIN AND DOOM (EZEKIEL 8-11) Date, August-September, 591 b.c. A year and two months after his call to be a prophet, Ezekiel was visited in his house by the elders of the Jewish colony at Tel-abib, and in their presence he fell into a trance, during which he was transport... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEELS] RV 'whirling wheels,' and so in Ezekiel 10:6; Ezekiel 10:13. The word is not the ordinary one for 'wheels.' CHERUB] the singular denoting the group, as in Ezekiel 9:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RIGHT SIDE] the S. side. The Hebrews described the points of the compass as for a spectator facing E. The S. side of the Temple building was the part of the precincts nearest to the city.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH THE CLOUD] a comparison with 1 Kings 8:10 shows that the 'glory' which Ezekiel saw in his visions was the same as that by which God's presence had been hitherto manifested in the Holy of Holies.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE VOICE, etc] like thunder.... [ Continue Reading ]
BESIDE THE WHEELS] RV 'beside a wheel.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_One_ CHERUB] RV 'the cherub,' the cherub next the particular wheel just mentioned. The scribe-angel did not actually go between the wheels himself, but stood beside the chariot and received the fire from one of the cherubim.... [ Continue Reading ]
The cherubim, as well as the wheels, are now said to be full of eyes.... [ Continue Reading ]
It was cried unto them. O wheel] RV 'they were called.. the whirling wheels.'... [ Continue Reading ]
The face of a (RV 'the') CHERUB here takes the place of the ox-face of Ezekiel 1:10. This seems at first sight to indicate that the cherubim already known to Ezekiel were oxfaced. But the cherubim in the decoration of Ezekiel's visionary temple (Ezekiel 44:18) had only the faces of a man and a lion.... [ Continue Reading ]
The 'glory' now returns to its place above the chariot.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Every one_] RV 'they.' The east gate] the eastern gate of the outer court. The presence of God moves to the very verge of the Temple precincts, which it is about to leave altogether.... [ Continue Reading ]
I KNEW THAT THEY _were_ the cherubims] RV 'I knew that they were cherubim.' Ezekiel now recognised for the first time that the 'living creatures'were identical with the 'cherubim' of Hebrew poetry and sacred Symbolism. He thus gives a clue to the source of the ideas which had unconsciously moulded h... [ Continue Reading ]