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When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn`t turn when they went.
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God's Unrestricted Power
Commentators explain that the wheels' ability to move in any of their four directions without turning signifies God's unrestricted power and reach. Just as the four directions represent all directions, God's providence is active everywhere, moving with perfect efficiency and purpose to accomplish His will.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Upon their four sides - that is, straight in the direction toward which their faces looked. Since the four quarters express all directions, …
19th Century
Anglican
Upon their four sides—that is, forwards or backwards upon the one wheel, and to the right or the left upon the other. Four
16th Century
Protestant
What he had already explained he now repeats for the sake of confirmation, that they went upon their four sides — that is, each living cre…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When they went, they went upon their four sides On either of their crossing rings, as they were directed by the living cr…
Providence, represented by the wheels, produces changes. Sometimes one spoke of the wheel is uppermost, sometimes another; but the motion of the wh…
