7And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
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.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
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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