Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them - O wheel - Never was there a more unfortunate and unmeaning translation. The word haggalgal , may signify, simply, the roller, or a chariot, or roll on, or the swift roller. And he clepide ilke wheelis volible, or turninge about. Old MS. Bible. Any of these will do: "and as to the wheels," laophannim , "they were called in my hearing" haggalgal , "the chariot." The gentleman who took for his text "O wheel!" and made God' s decree of eternal predestination out of it, must have borrowed some of Rabbi Ananias' s three hundred barrels of oil! But such working of God' s word cannot be too severely reprehended.
As these wheels are supposed to represent Divine Providence, bringing about the designs of the Most thigh, how like is the above haggalgal , taken as a verb, "roll on," to those words of Virgil in his Pollio: -
Talia saela, suis dixerunt, currite, fusis,
Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae .
"The Fates, when they this happy web have spun,
Shall bless the sacred clue, and bid it swiftly run."
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