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They went everyone straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn`t turn when they went.
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Directed by God's Spirit
All commentators agree that the creatures' movement was not random but directed by a single "spirit." This is widely understood as the will or Spirit of God, demonstrating that God's agents act in perfect, harmonious obedience to His sovereign commands. They go exactly where God's purpose leads.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The “chariot,” though composed of distinct parts, was to be considered as a whole. There was one spirit expressive of one conscious life pervading …
19th Century
Anglican
Where the spirit was to go. —The one informing spirit which animated all the living creatures alike, and in accordance with which …
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet repeats that the movement of the living creatures was in each case directed towards, or in the direction of its face: and…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they went everyone straight forward Or, "over against his face" F17; for, which way soever they went,…
It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the …
