Ezekiel Chapter 1 verse 6 Holy Bible
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
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And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
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And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
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And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
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Everyone had four faces, and everyone of them had four wings.
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and four faces `are' to each, and four wings `are' to each of them,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - We note the points of contrast with other like visions. (1) In Isaiah 6:2 each seraph has six wings, as each "living creature" has in Revelation 4:8. (2) In Revelation 4:7 the four heads are distributed, one to each of the "living creatures," while here each has four faces, and forms, as it were, a Janus quadrifrons. The wings are described more minutely in ver. 11.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Four faces.--The cherubim, being merely symbolical figures, are variously represented. Those placed in the Tabernacle and in the Temple of Solomon appear to have had only a single face; those described in Ezekiel's vision of the Temple (Ezekiel 41:18-19) had two; the four living creatures of Revelation 4:7 were each different from the other: one like a man, one like a lion, one like an ox, and one like an eagle, and these four are combined here in each one of the cherubim (Ezekiel 1:10). Man is the head of the whole animal creation, the lion of wild beasts, the ox of the domestic animals, and the eagle of the birds.Four wings.--In Revelation 4:8, six wings are mentioned, as also with the seraphim of Isaiah 6:2. The cherubim in Solomon's Temple had two (1Kings 6:27). In Ezekiel 10:21, as here, they have four. The number is plainly not important, though doubtless assigned to them with reference to the number of creatures, and of their faces, and of the wheels; but that they should have more than the normal number of two is here appropriate, partly to concur with the other indications of the fulness of their life and activity, and partly because (Ezekiel 1:11) two of them were used to express their reverence, as were four of those of the seraphim in Isaiah. . . .
