John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 10:17

"When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them." — Ezekiel 10:17 (ASV)

When they stood, [these] stood When one was inactive, lifeless, and without motion, making no progress in knowledge, experience, and practice, the other was so likewise; (See Gill on Ezekiel 1:21); and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also] ; like people, like priest, whether in things commendable or not, (Hosea 4:9) ; for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them ; the same spirit that was in the cherubim was in the wheels; and the same Spirit of God, who is a "spirit of life" ^F3 , as the words may be rendered, is in the churches, as in the ministers; generally speaking, if the one are lively, the other are also, and both move as they are acted by the Spirit; and also their motion from place to place, which is spoken of in (Ezekiel 10:18) , is directed by the Spirit; see (Acts 16:6Acts 16:7) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F3: (hyxh xwr) (pneuma bwhv) , Sept. "spiritus vitae", V. L. Starckius.