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Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had.
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God's All-Seeing Wisdom
The most striking image in this verse is that the wheels are 'full of eyes.' Commentators like John Calvin explain this symbolizes God's perfect, all-seeing wisdom. Even when life's events seem chaotic or confusing, like wheels within wheels, they are guided by divine providence. Nothing is random; everything is under God's watchful, intelligent control.
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Ezekiel
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16th Century
Protestant
Now, as I have remarked, after the Prophet has granted that some events seem twisted and indirect, and that God acts through winding paths, he then…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings This is to b…
Presbyterian
Ezekiel sees the working of Divine providence in the government of the lower world and its affairs. When God is leaving a people in displeasure, an…
