Ezekiel 1:15

"Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it."

Key Reflection

As Ezekiel observed the vision of the living creatures, he noticed a wheel beside each one, each wheel having a face in every direction. This imagery was likely meant to convey the sovereignty and omnipresence of God, as the wheels moving in all directions symbolized His all-encompassing authority and constant oversight over His creation. The original audience would have recognized these symbols as reflective of divine power and presence, emphasizing that God's control extends across all dimensions and aspects of their world.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Translate it: “one wheel upon the earth by” each of “the liviing creatures” on his four sides (i. e. on the four sides of each of the living creatures). There was a wheel to “each” of the living creatures: it was set “by,” i. e. immediately “beneath” the feet of the living creature, and was constructed for direct motion in any of the four lines in which the creatures themselves moved. Their “work” or make, i. e. their construction, was “a wheel in the middle of a wheel;” the wheel was composed of two circumferences set at right angles to each other, like the equator and meridian upon a globe.

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