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io ^Commentary
Chapter nefs of their Motions every way refembled the
I. Flafhes of Lightning:, compare Matth. xxiv. 27.
^*sy^j Zech. iv. 10.
Verfe 15. y er# ^ j ?J6j behold one Wheel [or the fame fort
of Wheel] upon the Earth by the living Creatures
with his four faces'] or^on his four fides y that is, on
the four fides or Faces of the fquare Body as it flood :
So that a Wheel was before every one of the living
Creatures on the outlide of the Square. So Dr.
Lightfoot expounds the Words, in his Defiription
of the Temple, Chap, xxxviii. The Sentence may
be tranilated thus : Behold one Wheel upon Earth
by the living Creatures to each of the Creatures with
the four Faces j fo the word hearbang is ufed ver..
ic. The word Wheel is certainly ufed Collectively
for each Wheel : As the Cherub Hands for Cheru-
bims, Chap. ix. 3. x. 4. and Living Creature figni-
fies the four living Creatures, ibid. ver. 15, 19.
That there were four Wheels, according to the
number of the living Creatures, is plain by com-
paring this Verfe with the 16 and 19 j and with
Chap. x. 9.
The Wheels are reprefented here as
ftanding upon the Earth, or near the Earth : At
other times they appear'd as being lifted up above
it j, fee ver* 20, 21. and Chap. x. 17.
Yerfe 16. Ver. 16. The Appearance of the Wheels was like
unto the Colour of a Beryl] Azure, the Colour of
the Sky, mixed with a bright Green ; compare Dan.
x. 6.
Ibid. Their Appearance and their Work was as it
were a Wheel in the middle of a Wheel] as it were
one Wheel put crofs within another, like two Circles
in a Sphere cutting one another at right Angles
j to fignify the Stability and Uniformity of
their