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Ezekiel 1:8
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6 Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.
7 Their1 legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled alike the color of burnished bronze.  
8 aThe hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings.  
9 Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight aforward.  
10 As for athe likeness of their faces, each bhad the face of a man; each of the four had cthe face of a lion on the right side, deach of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, eand each of the four had the face of an eagle.  
11 Thus were their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two wings of each one touched one another, and atwo covered their bodies.  
12 And aeach one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went.  
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, alike the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 1:8

The hands of each were the hands of a man. The hand is the symbol of active power, guided by skilfulness (Psalms 78:72).

under their wings—signifying their operations are hidden from our too curious prying; and as the "wings" signify something more than human, namely, the secret prompting of God, it is also implied that they are moved by it and not by their own power, so that they do nothing at random, but all with divine wisdom.

they four had . . . faces and . . . wings—He returns to what he had stated already in Ezekiel 1:6; this gives a reason why they had hands on their four sides, namely, because they had faces and wings on the four sides. They moved whithersoever they would, not by active energy merely, but also by knowledge (expressed by their faces) and divine guidance (expressed by their "wings").




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