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Everyone had four faces, and everyone of them had four wings.
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Symbols of Perfect Service
Commentators explain that the four faces (man, lion, ox, eagle) and four wings are symbolic. They represent the highest qualities of all creation—intelligence, strength, diligence, and speed—showing that these angelic beings are perfectly equipped to carry out God's will swiftly and powerfully.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the Revelation of John each “beast” has its own distinctive character; here each unites in itself the four characters; there each has six wings,…
19th Century
Anglican
Four faces. —The cherubim, being merely symbolical figures, are variously represented. Those placed in the Tabernacle and in the T…
16th Century
Protestant
He now comes to the heads and wings themselves. Many suppose that each animal had four heads, and then that four appearances belonged to each head.…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And or but everyone had four faces Which are described, (See Gill on Ezekiel 1:10). The Targum multiplies the faces in a stran…
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 …
