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Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
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A Familiar Vision, A New Purpose
Commentators unanimously note that this vision of God's throne is nearly identical to the one in Ezekiel 1. However, they stress its different purpose. While the first vision introduced God's glory, this one, as John Calvin and John Gill explain, signifies His imminent departure from the temple and the coming judgment upon Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As in (Ezekiel 1:0), the vision of the glory of the Lord, the particulars given identifying the two visions.
19th Century
Anglican
As it were a sapphire stone. —Compare Ezekiel 1:26. No mention is here made of a being upon the throne, but it is implied…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet recounts another vision which bears a great resemblance to the first one he related to us in the first chapter, but it has a diffe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then I looked, and, behold After the vision of the destruction of the greater part of the inhabitants of Jerusalem b…
The fire being taken from between the wheels, under the cherubim (Ezekiel 1:13), seems to have signified the wrath of God to be execute…
