Eze 1:15-24, 10:2-22, Heb 9:5 | TSK | STEP

crystal.The Hebrew {kerach,} which generally denotes ice, doubtless here signifies crystal, ([krystallos,] from [kryos,] cold, ice, and [stellomai,] to concrete,) as it is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate. It is a very large class of silicious minerals, hard, pellucid, naturally colourless, of regularly angular figures, and of simple plates; not flexible, nor elastic, but giving fire with steel; not fermenting by acid menstrua, but calcinable in a strong fire. There are three orders of pure crystal: the first is perfect columnar crystals, with double pyramids, of eighteen planes, in an hexangular pyramid at each end; the second is that of perfect crystals, without a column, of twelve or sixteen planes, in two hexangular pyramids: and the third is that of imperfect crystals, with single pyramids, of ten or twelve planes, in an hexangular or pentangular column. Terrible crystal seems to denote that which was well cut and polished, vividly refracting the rays of light.

their wings.

12,24

which.

11; Job 4:18; Ps 89:7; Lu 17:10

like.

43:2; Re 1:15; 19:6

as the voice.

10:5; Job 37:2,4,5; Ps 18:13; 29:3-9; 68:33

as the noise.

Da 10:6; 2Ki 7:6

‏ Ezekiel 10:2-22

unto.

7; 9:2,3,11

Go.

8-13,16; 1:15-20

thine hand. Heb. the hollow of thine hand. coals.

1:13; Ex 9:8-10; Ps 18:12,13; 140:10; Isa 6:6,7; Re 8:5

scatter.

20:47,48; 24:9-14; 2Ki 25:9; Isa 30:30; Jer 24:8-10

and the.

3; 9:3; 43:4

the glory.

18; 1:28; 9:3; 11:22,23; Nu 16:19

went up. Heb. was lifted up. and the house.

43:5; Ex 40:35; 1Ki 8:10-12; 2Ch 5:13,14; Hag 2:9; Re 15:8

the sound.

1:24

outer.

46:21; 1Ki 7:9; 2Ch 4:9

the voice.

Ex 19:16,19; 20:18,19; De 4:12,13; Job 37:2-5; 40:9; Ps 29:3-9

Ps 68:33; 77:17; Joh 12:28,29; Heb 12:18,19; Re 10:3,4

2; Ps 80:1; 99:1

stretched forth. Heb. sent forth. unto the.

6; 1:13

and went.

41:23-26; Mt 13:41,42,49,50; 24:34,35

21; 1:8; Isa 6:6

behold.

1:15-17

as the.

Da 10:6; Re 21:20

a beryl.{Tarshish} is generally rendered by the LXX. and the Vulgate the chrysolite, so called by the ancients (from [chrusos (chrysos) ,] gold, and [lithos ,] a stone,) because of its fine gold yellow colour. It is now called by the moderns the topaz; is a very beautiful and valuable gem in its pure and perfect state, though very rarely found so; and the finer pieces of it are in hardness second only to the diamond. The Vulgate, however, in ch. 1:16, renders, {quasi visio maris,} "as the appearance of the seas," i.e., azure; and Dr. Geddes (on Ex 28:10) says, that, with {Abarbanel,} he believes the beryl to be intended. It is a pellucid gem, called by our lapidaries, {aqua marina,} of a sea or bluish green colour, found in the East Indies and about the gold mines of Peru. The genuine beryl never receives any other mixture of colour; and in its perfect state approaches the hardness of garnet.

1:16; Ps 36:6; 97:2; 104:24; Ro 11:33

they went upon.

22; 1:17

whither.

1:20; Mt 8:8-10

body. Heb. flesh. were.

1:18; Re 4:6,8

it was cried, etc. or, they were called in my hearing,Wheel, or Galgal.

every.

21; 1:6-10; 1Ki 7:29,36; Re 4:7

the face of a cherub.In ch. 1:10, instead of "the face of a cherub," it is "the face of an ox:" hence a cherub was in the likeness of an ox, at least as to its head. The extraordinary shape of these angelic beings, which appeared to the prophet in vision, is manifestly symbolical; for it is not to be supposed that these heavenly beings are really thus formed. The four faces, wings, and the arms of a man, denote the sublime qualities of these immediate ministers of the Deity; qualities entirely essential to fill up the extent of their duty. The face of a man denotes their intelligence; of a lion, their intrepid courage; of an ox, their patience and perseverance in labour; and of an eagle, their great penetration, their sublime sight into heavenly things, and their readiness to rise up into all that is great and divine. The wings being stretched out, signifies their readiness and rapidity in obeying the commands of their Master; the wings bent down, denotes their profound respect before the Lord of the Universe; and the man's arms under the wings, shew that zeal produces application and labour.

lifted.

18,19; 8:6; 11:22; Ho 9:12

This.

20; 1:5,13,14; 43:3

1:19-21

for.

1:12,20,21

of the living creature. or, of life.

Ge 2:7; Ro 8:2; Re 11:11

the glory.

4; 7:20-22; Ps 78:60,61; Jer 6:8; 7:12-14; Ho 9:12; Mt 23:37-39

and stood.