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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the cherubim lifted up their wings,.... As birds do, when they are about to remove and fly away; these being upon the motion, ready to depart, as well as the glory of the Lord: and mounted up from the earth in my sight: the land of Judea, where the Gospel was first preached; but this being slighted and despised, the apostles and first...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel, by the river of Chebar,.... This is repeated from Ezekiel 10:15; not only for the confirmation of it; but with an addition, to show that the appearance of the man upon the throne, Ezekiel 1:26, is no other than the God of Israel; and inasmuch as Christ is there meant, for the Father...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Every one had four faces apiece,.... Every one of the four living creatures, or cherubim, had four faces; which were the face of a man, of a lion, of an ox, and of an eagle, Ezekiel 1:10; and everyone four wings: the Septuagint version reads eight wings; and the Syriac version "six"; so many in all indeed they had, [See comments on Ezekiel 1:23];...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces,.... Or their faces were like the same, which I saw by the river of Chebar; which prove that the living creatures and the cherubim must be the same: their appearance and themselves; were exactly the same there was no difference in their faces or in their bodies: they went everyone straight...