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One Spirit, One Purpose
Commentators stress the perfect, synchronized movement of the creatures and wheels. This illustrates a profound truth: a single divine spirit and purpose animates both the heavenly realm (the creatures) and earthly events (the wheels). God's will is executed in perfect harmony, with no division between His heavenly decrees and their outworking in the world.
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Ezekiel
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Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 1:20–21
19th Century
Bishop
The spirit of the living creature —Not, as in the margin, “the spirit of life.” The object of Ezekiel 1:19-21 is by every repetiti…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 1:21
16th Century
Theologian
He continues the same sentence, that the wheels were fixed, not that they fell but stood without motion, which we know to be unnatural, for a wheel…
John Gill
On Ezekiel 1:21
17th Century
Pastor
When those went, [these] went; and when those stood, [these] stood When ministers are active and lively, then the churche…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 1:15–25
17th Century
Minister
Providence, represented by the wheels, produces changes. Sometimes one spoke of the wheel is uppermost, sometimes another; but the motion of the wh…