Ezekiel 10

Ezekiel 10:1

Throne. It was a sky blue crystal or sapphire colour, (chap. i. 22, 26.) and was now empty, chap. i. The Lord spoke from the temple door, ver. 4. (Haydock)

Ezekiel 10:2

Out, to purify (St. Jerome) or punish the city, (Theodoret) which would shortly be reduced to ashes. (Vatable) (Menochius)

Ezekiel 10:3

Right, south of the priests’ court.

Ezekiel 10:4

Lifted up, before chap. ix. 3. (Calmet) — A man seemed to be on the throne, (Worthington) or rather over the door of the holy place.

Ezekiel 10:5

Court of the people. — Speaking in thunder.

Ezekiel 10:8

Wings. They would seem to be distinct, or (Calmet) fingers appeared at the end of the wings. (Grotius)

Ezekiel 10:9

CHAPTER X.

Stone. Hebrew Tharsis. Symmachus, “Hyacinth.” (Chap. i. 16.) (Calmet)

Ezekiel 10:11

By four ways. That is, by any of the four ways, forward, backward, to the right, or to the left. (Challoner) (Worthington)

Ezekiel 10:12

Wheels. These, as well as (Haydock) the cherubim, (Theodoret) were full of eyes. (Calmet)

Ezekiel 10:13

Voluble. That is, rolling wheels: galgal, (Challoner) which means “rolling:” (Haydock) or “he said to the wheels, Turn around about.” (Theodoret) — This is the real import of Hebrew. (Calmet) — Protestants have, “O wheel.” (Haydock)

Ezekiel 10:14

Cherub, or “ox.” All four seem to have had the resemblance of a man, but one more than the rest, which had respectively the appearance rather of an ox, a lion, or an eagle: (Worthington) or the ox was predominant in all, as both the head and feet were of it; (Calmet) which, however, does not constitute the greatest part, chap. i. 5. (Haydock)

Ezekiel 10:15

Creature. What I saw, was properly called cherubim. Charab, in Syriac means “to labour;” (Spencer) or cherubim may imply any composed and unusual figure, or “mixture,” Exodus xxv. 18. (Calmet) — Ezechiel being a priest, saw that the creatures resembled the cherubim of the temple. (Tirinus)

Ezekiel 10:17

Life. They were not mere machines; (Haydock) or they were pushed forward by an impetuous wind.

Ezekiel 10:19

East gate, leading from the city to the court of the people. (Calmet) – How unwilling is this good father to leave his house! (Tirinus)

Ezekiel 10:20

Creature. The cherubim and all the throne seemed alive. (Haydock)

Ezekiel 10:22

Forward, thus shewing God’s decree to abandon the synagogue. (Tirinus)