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i a. ^Commentary
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either to denote the Army of the Babylonians that
I. fhould befiege the City, or to hgnify the Angels,
C*ors^ who are called God's Hod.
Ibid. And when they flood, they let down their
wings.] They put themfelves in a Poflure of heark-
ening to God's Voice y and as it were quietly
waiting to receive his Commands. See the next
Verfe.
Verfe 25. Ver. 2?. And there was a voice from the firmament
when they flood.] The Vulgar Latin renders
it, When there was a voice they flood: in an at-
tentive Pofture. Compare Pfahn ciii. 20.
Verfe 26. Ver. 26. And above the firmament was the like-
nefs of a throne, as the appearance of a fapphire-
flone.~\ God is defcribed in Scripture, as dwelling
in light, and cloathing himfelf with it. Compare
Exod. xxiv. 10. Rev. iv. 2, 3. Pfahn civ. 2. 1 Tim*
vi. 16. So the Throne of God here defcribed was
made up of Light, refembling the Colours and
Brightnefs of a Sapphire.
Ibid. And upon the likenefs of the throne was
the likenefs as oflthe appearance of a man above np~
on it]
When Mofes and the Elders faw the God of
Ifrael, Exod. xxiv. 8. or the Glory of God, as the
Targum explains it, they faw no determinate
Figure, but an inconceivably refpiendent Bright-
ness, that they might not think God could be re-
prefented by any Image, Beta. iv. 16. But in this
Vifion, the Form and Shape of a Man is directly
reprefented to Ezekiel, as a VrAudium or Figure
of the Incarnation, fee the Note on Jerem. i. 4.
y n Ver. 27. And 1 faw as the colour of Amber, as
the appearance of Eire round about within it,