16The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
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His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. …
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-25)The prophet is very exact in making and recording his observations concerning this vision. And here we have, I. The notice he took of the wheels , Ezek. 1:15-21. The glory of God appears not only in the splendour of his retinue in the upper world, but in the steadiness of his government here in this lower world. Having seen how God does according to his will in the armies of heaven, let us now see…
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