12And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
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Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. …
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-14)The visions of God which Ezekiel here saw were very glorious, and had more particulars than those which other prophets saw. It is the scope and intention of these vision, 1. To possess the prophet’s mind with very great, and high, and honourable thoughts of that God by whom he was commissioned and for whom he was employed. It is the likeness of the glory of the Lord that he sees (Ezek. 1:28), and…
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