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But the most probable opinion seems to be that which the Chaldee paraphrast, Archbishop Usher, Dr. Prideaux, and other learned men adopt: namely, that these thirty years are to be reckoned from the time when Josiah and all the people of Judah entered into that solemn covenant mentioned <a href="/2_kings/22-3.htm" title="And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,">2 Kings 22:3</a>; and when the book of the law was found by Hilkiah the priest, which was in the eighteenth year of Josiah, from which date, it appears, to the fifth year of the captivity, were thirty years. This being an event which put the Jewish state upon a new trial, was certainly sufficiently remarkable to render the time when it took place an era proper to be dated from. Accordingly, from the same period learned men compute the forty years of Judah’s transgression, mentioned <a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm" title="And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.">Ezekiel 4:6</a>. <span class="ital">In the fourth month — </span>Thammuz, which nearly corresponds to our July; <span class="ital">as I was among the captives — </span>Carried away by Nebuchadnezzar, with King Jehoiachin, <a href="/2_kings/24-14.htm" title="And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.">2 Kings 24:14</a>. Thus the godly are sometimes involved in the same outward calamities which befall the wicked. <span class="ital">By the river Chebar — </span>Which river Ammianus calls Aboras, and Ptolemy, Chaboras. It flows into the east side of the Euphrates at Circesium, or Carchemish, nearly two hundred miles northward of Babylon. On this river, at Tel-abib and other places, Nebuchadnezzar planted his Jewish captives, probably to cultivate waste lands, or to carry on some manufacture for the benefit of their victors. This was the scene of Ezekiel’s prophecies, which were continued through the course of twenty-two years. Here he was present in body, though in visionary representation he was sometimes taken to Jerusalem: see Bishop Newcome.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">The heavens were opened — </span>As a prelude to a heavenly vision. The appearance of the heavens, as it were, opening, seems, in this and such like cases, to have been represented first to excite attention to the vision that was to follow: see <a href="/matthew/3-16.htm" title="And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, see, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting on him:">Matthew 3:16</a>. <span class="ital">And I saw visions of God — </span>It is probable that the captive Jews had been left some time without prophets or visions from God, which might supply the want of the more ordinary means of instruction; at length, however, God raised them up a prophet in their captivity, to whom he first revealed himself by an extraordinary vision, as he had done to Isaiah, chap. 6., to Jeremiah, chap. 1., to Abraham, <a href="/acts/7-2.htm" title="And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelled in Charran,">Acts 7:2</a>, and to many others of his servants, in order, as it were, to open and settle a correspondence, and a satisfactory way of intercourse, so that there needed not afterward a vision upon every fresh revelation made to them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-2.htm">Ezekiel 1:2</a></div><div class="verse">In the fifth <i>day</i> of the month, which <i>was</i> the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-2.htm" title="In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,...">Ezekiel 1:2-3</a></span>. <span class="ital">In the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity — </span>This was of course the fifth year of Zedekiah, who succeeded Jehoiachin. And as the city and temple were destroyed in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, (<a href="/2_kings/25-2.htm" title="And the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.">2 Kings 25:2</a>,) it follows that this vision appeared to Ezekiel six years before that event. The Hebrew writers, it must be observed, use several computations of the beginning of the Babylonish captivity: see the note on <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm" title="And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.">Jeremiah 25:11</a>. That under Jehoiachin, wherein Ezekiel was made a captive, is the computation he always follows in the succeeding parts of his prophecy. <span class="ital">The word of the Lord — </span>This expression signifies any sort of revelation, whether by a vision, such as is related in the following verses, or by a voice, as <a href="/ezekiel/2-3.htm" title="And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day.">Ezekiel 2:3</a>; <span class="ital">came expressly — </span>Hebrew, <span class="greekheb">היה היה</span>, <span class="ital">being was, </span>or, <span class="ital">in coming came, </span>that is, <span class="ital">came assuredly; unto Ezekiel — </span>It came with such clearness and conviction that he could neither doubt of its divine authority, mistake its import, nor question his being appointed to the prophetical office; <span class="ital">the priest — </span>Being of the family of Aaron, he was a priest by birth, and was now made a prophet by an extraordinary call. <span class="ital">In the land of the Chaldeans — </span>In the worst places God can raise up instruments for the service of his church. <span class="ital">And the hand of the Lord was there upon him — </span>He felt sensible impressions of a divine power closing his senses to external objects, opening his eyes to see the visions, opening his ears to hear the voice, and his heart to receive both. When <span class="ital">the hand of the Lord </span>goes along with his word, then it becomes effectual. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="3"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-3.htm">Ezekiel 1:3</a></div><div class="verse">The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.</div><A name="4"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-4.htm">Ezekiel 1:4</a></div><div class="verse">And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness <i>was</i> about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/ezekiel/1-4.htm" title="And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the middle thereof as the color of amber, out of the middle of the fire.">Ezekiel 1:4</a>. </span><span class="ital">I looked — </span>I very diligently surveyed the things which were represented to me in the vision, <span class="ital">and behold a whirlwind — </span>Denoting the indignation and judgments of God; a quick, impetuous, and irresistible vengeance: see the margin. It is described here as coming out of the north, because, as has been before observed, the Chaldean army, by which the judgment was to be executed, would, for convenience of forage and water, march first northward, and then turn about toward Judea, so that they did, strictly speaking, come into it from the north. <span class="ital">A great cloud — </span>It is usual to express any great trouble by a great, dark cloud hanging over people’s heads. And here, in particular, it seems to signify the calamity coming on Judea by the Chaldean invasion. <span class="ital">And a fire infolding itself — </span>A fire appearing in folds, like one wreath within another. This was indicative of God’s avenging justice, for God is described in Scripture as a consuming fire, when he comes to execute his judgments upon sinners: see <a href="/deuteronomy/4-24.htm" title="For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.">Deuteronomy 4:24</a>. <span class="ital">And a brightness was about it — </span>Clear discoveries of God’s holiness and justice, which, it is thus signified, would be made manifest in what was about to be done. <span class="ital">Out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber — </span>Rather, as <span class="ital">the appearance of amber. </span>“There was a bright pellucid appearance.” — Newcome. But Bochart shows that <span class="greekheb">ηλεκτρον</span>, the word used in the LXX., signifies not only <span class="ital">amber </span>and <span class="ital">crystal, </span>but a metal compounded of gold and silver, or of gold and brass; and thinks that the last, called <span class="greekheb">χαλκολιβανον</span>, <a href="/revelation/1-15.htm" title="And his feet like to fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.">Revelation 1:15</a>, best suits this place. This seems to have been a symbolical representation of the Jewish people; for as this compound metal was not consumed in the fire, so the Jews were not to be wholly destroyed by the grievous calamities they were to be involved in, but to come out purer from the furnace of affliction, as gold and brass out of the fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="5"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-5.htm">Ezekiel 1:5</a></div><div class="verse">Also out of the midst thereof <i>came</i> the likeness of four living creatures. And this <i>was</i> their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-5.htm" title="Also out of the middle thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man....">Ezekiel 1:5-6</a></span>. <span class="ital">Out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures — </span>Termed cherubim, <a href="/ezekiel/9-3.htm" title="And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;">Ezekiel 9:3</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/9-10.htm" title="And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way on their head.">Ezekiel 9:10</a>. throughout. These seem to have been a hieroglyphical representation of the holy angels, attendants on the king of glory, and the ministers of his providence, as well when he executes judgments on sinners, as when he confers benefits on his people. They were <span class="ital">four, </span>probably to denote that they were employed in all the four quarters of the world. <span class="ital">They had the likeness of a man — </span>“They had the human stature.” So Houbigant. Or, as others interpret the phrase, “for the greatest part they appeared in the human shape.” This was to signify that they were intelligent and rational creatures, of which that form is to us the token. But each of them <span class="ital">had four faces, </span>which were probably emblems of their endowments and characters. “The face of a <span class="ital">man </span>implied that they possessed knowledge, foresight, prudence, compassion, and philanthropy; that of a <span class="ital">lion </span>intimated their boldness and force in executing the will of God; that of an <span class="ital">ox </span>denoted strength, unwearied diligence, and perseverance; and that of an <span class="ital">eagle, </span>spiritual sagacity and heavenly affections, by which they soared aloft above all created objects, to the uncreated source of holiness and felicity.” — Scott. <span class="ital">And every one had four wings — </span>By which seems to be signified the activity and speed with which they executed God’s commands in all parts of the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="6"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-6.htm">Ezekiel 1:6</a></div><div class="verse">And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.</div><A name="7"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-7.htm">Ezekiel 1:7</a></div><div class="verse">And their feet <i>were</i> straight feet; and the sole of their feet <i>was</i> like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-7.htm" title="And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass....">Ezekiel 1:7-10</a></span>. <span class="ital">And their feet were straight feet — </span>Emblematical probably of simplicity and uprightness, or of the steadiness of their obedience. <span class="ital">And the sole of their feet like the sole of a calf’s foot — </span>To signify their firmness and constancy in performing the divine will. Or, as some think, the soles of their feet, being divided, like those of calves and other clean animals, might be emblematical of their perfect purity and holiness. <span class="ital">And they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass — </span>To signify their zeal in God’s service, or that the glory of God should shine forth, or be made manifest in their actions. <span class="ital">And they had the hands of a man — </span>To show their power and ability to perform with speed what was enjoined them; or, that they did all things orderly, distinctly, and quickly; the hands of a man being most aptly made, of any thing we know, for performing any artificial operations. And by these hands being <span class="ital">under their wings </span>might be signified that their works were invisible and unknown to man, and done without any ostentation. <span class="ital">They four had their faces and their wings — </span>This is a repetition of what had been said before, in order that it might be more noticed. <span class="ital">Their wings were joined one to another — </span>To signify their perfect agreement in the speedy execution of God’s will; and that all the acts which God performs by the ministry of his angels are admirably consistent, and agreeing with each other, and adapted to the purpose intended to be brought to pass. <span class="ital">They turned not when they went — </span>They were immediately ready to do the work assigned them without any delay or hinderance, and they proceeded directly on in one and the same undeviating course; were constant and persevering in performing the divine will, without being turned aside therefrom by any obstacle whatever. <span class="ital">They four had the face of a man, </span>&c. — See note on <a href="/ezekiel/1-6.htm" title="And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.">Ezekiel 1:6</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="8"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-8.htm">Ezekiel 1:8</a></div><div class="verse">And <i>they had</i> the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.</div><A name="9"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-9.htm">Ezekiel 1:9</a></div><div class="verse">Their wings <i>were</i> joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.</div><A name="10"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-10.htm">Ezekiel 1:10</a></div><div class="verse">As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.</div><A name="11"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-11.htm">Ezekiel 1:11</a></div><div class="verse">Thus <i>were</i> their faces: and their wings <i>were</i> stretched upward; two <i>wings</i> of every one <i>were</i> joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-11.htm" title="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....">Ezekiel 1:11-12</a></span>. <span class="ital">Their wings were stretched upward — </span>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 the preceding, and render the whole, <span class="ital">Their faces and their wings were stretched upward, </span>namely, denoting a posture of attention, as if they were <span class="ital">hearkening to the voice of God’s words, </span>as angels are represented <a href="/psalms/103-20.htm" title="Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word.">Psalm 103:20</a>. <span class="ital">Two wings of every one were joined one to another, </span>&c. — Of the two living creatures in front, and of the two behind, the right wing of one reached to the left wing of the other, the extremities of the expanded inner wings forming an arch. In <a href="/isaiah/6-2.htm" title="Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly.">Isaiah 6:2</a>, and <a href="/revelation/4-6.htm" title="And before the throne there was a sea of glass like to crystal: and in the middle of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.">Revelation 4:6</a>, each of the seraphim has six wings assigned him, whereas the living creatures here have each but four; the reason of which is, that in those places these appearances are described as making use of two of their wings to cover their faces, out of reverence to the divine presence, before which they stand and worship; whereas, here they are supposed to be actively employed as ministers of the Divine Providence, in executing his counsels in all parts of the world. <span class="ital">And two covered their bodies — </span>To signify, perhaps, that we men are not able to understand the nature of angels. <span class="ital">Whither the spirit was to go, they went — </span>Without any dispute or delay: the Spirit of God directed all their motions: and all their ministrations were as truly unconstrained and free, as they were subservient to God’s designs in his providential government of the church and the world. <span class="ital">They turned not when they went — </span>They looked not back; they turned not out of the way; they ceased not till they had completed their course.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="12"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-12.htm">Ezekiel 1:12</a></div><div class="verse">And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; <i>and</i> they turned not when they went.</div><A name="13"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-13.htm">Ezekiel 1:13</a></div><div class="verse">As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance <i>was</i> like burning coals of fire, <i>and</i> like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-13.htm" title="As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning....">Ezekiel 1:13-14</a></span>. <span class="ital">As for the likeness of the living creatures — </span>Their colour, or aspect; <span class="ital">their appearance was like burning coals — </span>They were inflamed by the Spirit of God with a holy zeal for his glory, and with indignation against impenitent sinners. This might also be intended as a symbolical declaration, that after the long patience of God, all things now tended to vengeance, and the executing of his judgments upon the Jews; for executing which he would use these angels as ministers. <span class="ital">And like the appearance of lamps — </span>This probably signified, that the uprightness of the divine justice should shine forth, or be made manifest in these judgments. <span class="ital">It went up and down among the living creatures — </span>That is, the fire moved itself up and down. Milton’s expression, (<span class="ital">Paradise Lost, </span>6:756,) is, “And careening fires between.” That is, fires which ran swiftly, and, as it were, tilted at each other: emblematical of the terrible effects of the ministry of these living creatures on the objects of divine vengeance. <span class="ital">Out of the fire went forth lightning — </span>Significative of the irresistible force of the divine judgments, and the terrible and sudden destruction to be produced by them. <span class="ital">And the living creatures ran and returned as a flash of lightning — </span>With inexpressible velocity: the swiftness of their motions every way resembled flashes of lightning. “They ran to do their work, and execute their orders,” says Henry, “and then returned to give an account of what they had done, and receive new instructions. They ran into the lower world, to do what was to be done there: and when they had done, <span class="ital">returned as a flash of lightning, </span>to the upper world, to the vision of God. Thus we should be in the affairs of this world: though we run into them, we must not repose in them, but our souls must presently return like lightning to God, their rest and centre.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="14"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-14.htm">Ezekiel 1:14</a></div><div class="verse">And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.</div><A name="15"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-15.htm">Ezekiel 1:15</a></div><div class="verse">Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-15.htm" title="Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel on the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces....">Ezekiel 1:15-16</a></span>. <span class="ital">Now as I beheld, </span>&c. — The prophet here proceeds to relate what he saw besides the living creatures, which he had described in the foregoing verses. <span class="ital">Behold one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures — </span>By each of the living creatures stood one wheel, so that they were four in number, according to the number of the living creatures. While he was contemplating the glory of the former vision, this other was presented to him: wherein the dispensations of providence are compared to the wheels of a machine, which all contribute to the regular motion of it. The shape of <span class="ital">wheels, </span>and their fitness for continual motion, aptly represent the constant revolution of human affairs under the conduct of providence, which orders, governs, and changes. Sometimes one spoke of the wheel is uppermost, sometimes another. “Those persons or communities which to- day are at the top of the wheel, may to-morrow be at the bottom, beyond all human expectation or prevention; yet in the midst of apparent confusion, and while every thing seems hurried on by blind chance, or fatal necessity, the most perfect regularity is observed, and the changes are directed by as fixed laws as those which regulate the motions of the wheels.” — Scott. The prophet’s seeing the wheels <span class="ital">upon the earth </span>was intruded to denote, that the vision related to the affairs of this world; and the wheels being said to be beside the living creatures, which attended to direct their motions, manifests, that all inferior creatures are, and move, and act, as the Creator, by the ministration of angels, directs and influences them: visible effects are managed and governed by invisible causes. <span class="ital">The appearance of the wheels — </span>That is, their <span class="ital">colour, </span>for it is plain that is here intended; <span class="ital">and their work — </span>Their <span class="ital">workmanship, </span>form, or figure, as the word <span class="greekheb">מעשׂה</span>is repeatedly used, <a href="/1_kings/7-17.htm" title="And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.">1 Kings 7:17</a>, &c., all that was wrought, whether engraved or otherwise, was of one colour; <span class="ital">was like unto the colour of a beryl — </span>A gem of a bluish green; and called in the text here <span class="ital">Tarshish, </span>probably from the place whence it came. The colour intended is <span class="ital">azure, </span>or that of the blue sky mixed with a bright green: see <a href="/daniel/10-6.htm" title="His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.">Daniel 10:6</a>. Probably the wisdom, justice, and goodness of God’s providential government may be here signified by this beautiful colour of the wheels. <span class="ital">They four had one likeness — </span>They were the same for dimensions, colour, frame, and motion, to indicate that there is a consistency and uniformity in all the dispensations of Divine Providence. <span class="ital">Their appearance, &c., was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel — </span>This may be explained two ways; either, 1st, That there were smaller wheels connected with, and put in motion by the larger, an emblematical representation of the connection of causes and effects; or, 2d, That they crossed one another in the middle, to signify the unsearchableness of the divine dispensations, and the intricacy of the affairs of this world, which seem to cross and thwart each other; but yet all move under the superintendence of infinite wisdom, justice, and goodness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="16"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-16.htm">Ezekiel 1:16</a></div><div class="verse">The appearance of the wheels and their work <i>was</i> like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work <i>was</i> as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.</div><A name="17"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-17.htm">Ezekiel 1:17</a></div><div class="verse">When they went, they went upon their four sides: <i>and</i> they turned not when they went.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-17.htm" title="When they went, they went on their four sides: and they turned not when they went....">Ezekiel 1:17-18</a></span>. <span class="ital">When they went — </span>Namely, the wheels; <span class="ital">they went upon their four sides — </span>The wheels being supposed spherical as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other, the four semicircles, which were in two whole wheels, may well be taken for these four sides on which these wheels moved, and such a wheel will readily be turned to all points of the compass. An expressive emblem this of that divine providence which extends alike easily to every part and thing; and, like a wheel or globe, has no beginning, ending, or separation, but is a circumference including the whole of things, and equally acts more or less in every place and part. <span class="ital">And they turned, </span>or <span class="ital">returned, not when they went — </span>That is, they never returned, or went backward, till they came to the end of their course; but proceeded on in one straight course and unbent line of direction. So firm and sure are the methods, so unalterable and constant the purposes of God, and so invariable the obedience and observance of holy angels. So subject to the will of God are all second causes, and so surely does the Divine Providence always accomplish its ends. Thus God speaks of his word and decree, <a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm" title="So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.">Isaiah 55:11</a> : <span class="ital">It shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that which I please. </span>To return by the way that he went, is a proverbial speech, signifying a man’s missing his aim, or not accomplishing his designs: see <a href="/1_kings/13-9.htm" title="For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that you came.">1 Kings 13:9</a>; <a href="/2_kings/19-33.htm" title="By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, said the LORD.">2 Kings 19:33</a>. <span class="ital">As for their rings, </span>or <span class="ital">felloes — </span>Namely, the circumference of the wheels; <span class="ital">they were so high that they were dreadful — </span>Their circuit was so vast as to impress a fear on the beholder. This implied the vast compass of providence, which, as we read, <span class="ital"><a href="//apocrypha.org/wisdom_of_solomon/8-1.htm" title="Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order all things.">Wis 8:1</a></span>, <span class="ital">reacheth from one end to another mightily, </span>or, as St. Paul expresses it, the <span class="ital">height and depth both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable his judgments are, and his ways past finding out, </span><a href="/romans/11-33.htm" title="O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!">Romans 11:33</a>. <span class="ital">And their wings were full of eyes round about them four — </span>That is, every one of the four wheels; and so were also the living creatures themselves: see <a href="/ezekiel/10-12.htm" title="And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.">Ezekiel 10:12</a>, to signify the great wisdom and foresight which direct all the dispensations of Divine Providence. How fitly do the wheels, their motion, their height, their eyes, and the form, appearance, motions, wings, and eyes of the living creatures express the height and depth, the unsearchableness, wisdom, and vigilance of the Divine Providence!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="18"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-18.htm">Ezekiel 1:18</a></div><div class="verse">As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings <i>were</i> full of eyes round about them four.</div><A name="19"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-19.htm">Ezekiel 1:19</a></div><div class="verse">And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-19.htm" title="And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up....">Ezekiel 1:19-21</a></span>. <span class="ital">When the living creatures went, the wheels went by them — </span>The living creatures and the wheels moved in concert, to show with what readiness and alacrity all the instruments of providence concur in carrying on its great designs and purposes; and that second causes here below act under the superintendence and conduct of God and his holy angels. <span class="ital">When the living creatures were lifted up, &c., the wheels were lifted up — </span>By the wheels being <span class="ital">lifted up </span>with the living creatures, may be signified, that the dispensations of God on earth, where the wheels were first seen, are connected with the things of heaven, and are all appointed and directed with a reference to the concerns of God’s church, and of the spiritual and heavenly world. <span class="ital">Whithersoever the Spirit was to go — </span>Namely, the Spirit of God; <span class="ital">they went — </span>They punctually observed his conduct, and obeyed his influence. Their wills were directed by his will. <span class="ital">And the wheels were lifted up over against them — </span>Proportionably to the lifting up of the living creatures. The wheels, inferior agents, and second causes, act in unison with, and under the influence of, these angelic ministers of the divine will. <span class="ital">For the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels — </span>Both the wheels and the living creatures were actuated by one and the same spirit. An undiscerned, yet divine, mighty, wise, and ever-living power and energy, influenced all, and governed all. <span class="ital">When those went, these went </span>— This is only a repetition of what is contained in the foregoing verse.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="20"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-20.htm">Ezekiel 1:20</a></div><div class="verse">Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither <i>was their</i> spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature <i>was</i> in the wheels.</div><A name="21"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-21.htm">Ezekiel 1:21</a></div><div class="verse">When those went, <i>these</i> went; and when those stood, <i>these</i> stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature <i>was</i> in the wheels.</div><A name="22"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-22.htm">Ezekiel 1:22</a></div><div class="verse">And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature <i>was</i> as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-22.htm" title="And the likeness of the firmament on the heads of the living creature was as the color of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above....">Ezekiel 1:22-25</a></span>. <span class="ital">And the likeness — </span>The appearance or resemblance; <span class="ital">of the firmament — </span>The expanse, as the word signifies. <span class="ital">Upon the heads of the living creatures — </span>And, of course, of the wheels connected with them; <span class="ital">was as the colour of the terrible crystal </span>— For splendour, purity, and solidity. All that was above these creatures and wheels was beautiful, majestic, and glorious, insomuch that none could behold it without being dazzled and astonished at it: it could not but impress the mind of every beholder with veneration, solemnity, and awe, and therefore it is said to be <span class="ital">terrible. And under the firmament </span>— Below, at a great distance; <span class="ital">were their wings straight — </span>That is, the living creatures stood with their wings stretched out, ready for motion. <span class="ital">The one toward the other — </span>Prepared to concur in all their motions and actings. <span class="ital">Every one had two, which covered on this side and on that side — </span>On the right hand and on the left. The sense seems to be the same with that of <a href="/ezekiel/1-11.htm" title="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.">Ezekiel 1:11</a>, denoting that two of the wings of each living creature were stretched upward, to express their readiness to obey the divine commands; and with the other two they covered their bodies: see note on <a href="/ezekiel/1-11.htm" title="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.">Ezekiel 1:11</a>. <span class="ital">And when they went — </span>Were executing the commands of God; <span class="ital">I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters — </span>Denoting “the terribleness of the judgments which they were to execute upon Jerusalem and the whole Jewish nation.” <span class="ital">As the voice of the Almighty </span>— It resembled great and dreadful thunder. <span class="ital">The voice of speech like the noise of a host — </span>Like the confused murmur of an army, intending the army of the Babylonians. All these noises signified that the commands which God had given, or was now giving, to these ministering spirits, were of a dreadful nature. <span class="ital">When they stood — </span>When they presented themselves before God, having performed their office; <span class="ital">they let down their wings — </span>Put themselves in a posture of hearkening to God’s voice, and as it were quietly waited to receive his commands. <span class="ital">And there was a voice, &c., when they stood — </span>The Vulgate seems to give the sense of this verse more exactly, thus: <span class="ital">Cum fieret vox-super caput eorum, stabant et submittebant alas suas: when there was a voice over their heads they stood, </span>&c, namely, in an attentive posture.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="23"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-23.htm">Ezekiel 1:23</a></div><div class="verse">And under the firmament <i>were</i> their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.</div><A name="24"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-24.htm">Ezekiel 1:24</a></div><div class="verse">And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.</div><A name="25"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-25.htm">Ezekiel 1:25</a></div><div class="verse">And there was a voice from the firmament that <i>was</i> over their heads, when they stood, <i>and</i> had let down their wings.</div><A name="26"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-26.htm">Ezekiel 1:26</a></div><div class="verse">And above the firmament that <i>was</i> over their heads <i>was</i> the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne <i>was</i> the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/ezekiel/1-26.htm" title="And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and on the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above on it....">Ezekiel 1:26-27</a></span>. <span class="ital">Above the firmament was the likeness of a throne — </span>Namely, the throne of God. God having given his prophet emblems of his attendants and ministers, while he was coming forth in the chariot of his power and justice, to execute judgment, and of the mysterious dispensations of his providence toward his church and the world, he now proceeds to discover to him some glimpses of his divine glory. The prophet does not say that he saw a real throne, but only the <span class="ital">likeness of a throne, </span>emblematical, doubtless, of God’s sovereign power and dominion over all creatures, whether in heaven or on earth. God is described in Scripture as <span class="ital">dwelling in light, </span>and <span class="ital">clothing himself with it. </span>So the throne of God is here described as made up of light resembling the colours and brightness of <span class="ital">a sapphire-stone. And upon the likeness of the throne, as the appearance of</span> <span class="ital">a man — </span>“When Moses and the elders <span class="ital">saw the God of Israel, </span><a href="/exodus/24-8.htm" title="And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.">Exodus 24:8</a>, or the glory of God, as the Targum explains it, they saw no determinate figure, but an inconceivably resplendent brightness, that they might not think God could be represented by any image. But in this vision the form and shape of a man are directly represented to Ezekiel, as a prelude or figure of the incarnation.” This, indeed, was doubtless the ever- blessed and only-begotten Son of God, who was in due time to assume human nature, and in that nature to be the visible image and representative of his invisible Father, whom no man hath seen, or can see, <a href="/1_timothy/6-16.htm" title="Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach to; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.">1 Timothy 6:16</a>; <a href="/john/1-18.htm" title="No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.">John 1:18</a>. He had appeared to Isaiah in glory, to constitute him a prophet, and he now appears to Ezekiel for the same purpose: see note on <a href="/isaiah/6-1.htm" title="In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.">Isaiah 6:1</a>, and compare <a href="/context/john/12-37.htm" title="But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:...">John 12:37-41</a>. He appears also as the Lawgiver and King of Israel, to vindicate his own honour, punish his rebellious subjects, and give warning by his prophet, ere he executed his just but severe indignation. <span class="ital">And I saw as the colour of amber — </span>See note on <a href="/ezekiel/1-4.htm" title="And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the middle thereof as the color of amber, out of the middle of the fire.">Ezekiel 1:4</a>. <span class="ital">As the appearance of fire — </span>Said to be a fire infolding itself, <a href="/ezekiel/1-4.htm" title="And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the middle thereof as the color of amber, out of the middle of the fire.">Ezekiel 1:4</a>. <span class="ital">Round about within it — </span>Namely, within the amber, to signify that Christ’s executing of judgment outwardly proceeded from his zeal for the glory of God and his indignation against sin. <span class="ital">From the appearance of his loins even upward — </span>Denoting, as some interpret it, his divine nature: <span class="ital">and from the appearance of his loins even downward — </span>Signifying his human nature. <span class="ital">I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire — </span>The general sense seems to be, that Christ, considered in his whole person, as God and man, is full of indignation against sin, and sinners continuing in sin, and is glorious in both his natures, and in all his proceedings: see <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-8.htm" title="In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:">2 Thessalonians 1:8</a>. <span class="ital">And it had brightness round about — </span>Majesty, justice, and unstained holiness shine round about him. In this colour does Christ appear to the Jews; he that would have visited them, clothed with the garments of salvation, now put on the garments of vengeance, expressed by such metaphors.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="27"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-27.htm">Ezekiel 1:27</a></div><div class="verse">And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.</div><A name="28"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/ezekiel/1-28.htm">Ezekiel 1:28</a></div><div class="verse">As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so <i>was</i> the appearance of the brightness round about. This <i>was</i> the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw <i>it</i>, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/ezekiel/1-28.htm" title="As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.">Ezekiel 1:28</a></span>. <span class="ital">As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud — </span>The Hebrew future, <span class="greekheb">יהיה</span>, is here frequentative, and should be rendered, <span class="ital">Is wont to be in the cloud, in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness — </span>The meaning is, In the brightness, or light, that was about what I saw, was the appearance of the rainbow. The rainbow, as we learn from <a href="/genesis/9-12.htm" title="And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:">Genesis 9:12</a>, &c., was appointed as a sign or symbol of God’s covenant of mercy with men: therefore an appearance of a rainbow in this vision signified that amidst his severe judgments God would remember mercy, and not forget his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; one part of which was, that their posterity should not become extinct, but should always remain; so that this appearance gave an assurance that the Jewish nation should not be wholly destroyed, though it should suffer very grievous judgments. And inasmuch as this vision was an evident representation of the WORD that <span class="ital">was </span>to be <span class="ital">made flesh, </span>whose incarnation was to be the foundation of God’s covenant of mercy with mankind, a rainbow, the symbol and token of mercy, was a very fit attendant on such a glorious vision. <span class="ital">This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord — </span>This is a description of that glorious vision wherein Jehovah appeared to me, and whereby he made manifest his attributes and perfections. The prophet terms it, not the appearance of <span class="ital">the glory, </span>but of <span class="ital">the likeness </span>of the glory. &c., because the full discovery of the glory of God to any human creature is not consistent with the state of mortality. <a href="/context/exodus/33-20.htm" title="And he said, You can not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live....">Exodus 33:20-23</a>, but as reserved for the life to come, <a href="/1_corinthians/13-12.htm" title="For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.">1 Corinthians 13:12</a>; <a href="/1_john/3-2.htm" title="Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.">1 John 3:2</a>. <span class="ital">And when I saw it I fell upon my face — </span>Through a reverential sense of God’s majesty, and his own frailty and meanness; or struck down with fear and astonishment before such glory. <span class="ital">And I heard a voice of one that spake — </span>They that are first humbled are most prepared to hear the voice of God, whether of instruction or consolation, <a href="/matthew/5-4.htm" title="Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.">Matthew 5:4</a>; <a href="/matthew/11-28.htm" title="Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.">Matthew 11:28</a>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Benson Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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