THEOSISEzekiel 1:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Every one had four faces, and every one four wings.
וְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה פָנִ֖ים לְאֶחָ֑ת וְאַרְבַּ֥ע כְּנָפַ֖יִם לְאַחַ֥ת לָהֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 10:14And every one had four faces: one face was the face of a cherub, and the second face, the face of a man: and in the third was the face of a lion: and in the fourth the face of an eagle.
- Ezek 1:15Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.
- Rev 4:7And the first living creature was like a lion: and the second living creature like a calf: and the third living creature, having the face, as it were, of a man: and the fourth living creature was like an eagle flying.
- Rev 4:8And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
- Isa 6:2Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew.
- Ex 25:20Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.
- Ezek 10:10And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.
- Ezek 1:8And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides,