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a* A Commentary
Chapter Ver. 10. Ml the Words that I flail fpeakttnto
III. thee, receive in they Heart,.]See the Note on Chap,
iyV>J ii. 8.
Ver. 10. y er> I2 . Tfo;/ the Spirit took me up.~] Carried
Ver. 1 2. me from t |ie pl aCe where I was before, when I
faw the Vifion mentioned Chap. i. 3, 4, See the
Note on Chap. viii. 3.
Ibid. o,4nd I heard behind me the Voice as of a
great ruffling.'] I heard a Voice fo loud that it
C
fhook the Earth like Thunder. See Joh. xii. 27, 28.
Ibid. 'Bleffed be the Glory of the Lord from his
place."] Whatever Place God honours with his
efpecial Prefence is equivalent to his Temple, and
there the Angels always attend upon the Divine
Majefty, to give him the Honour due unto his
Name. Compare Gen. xxviii. ij, 16, 19. The
Words imply that tho' God fhould forfake his Temple
Cfee the Note on Chap. ix.
$ ) and deftroy the
Place that . is called by his Name, yet his Prefence
will make a Temple of every Place, and Multi-
tudes of the heavenly Hoft will always be ready to
do him Service.
Ver. 1 7. Ver. 13. I heard alfo the noife of the Wings of
the living Creatures.] See the Note, on Chap.
i. 20.
Ibid. The noife of the Wheels over againfl them,]
That is, befides them, as the Hebrew Phrafe is
elfewhere rendred : See the Note on Chap. i. 20.
Ver. 14. Ver. 14. So the Spirit lifted me uf.] See Ver.
12. and the Note upon Chap. viii. 3. xxxvii. 1.
Ibid. (And I went in bittemefs, in the heat of
my Spirit.] The Joy that I firft conceived in receiving
the Divine Meflage, was quickly turned into
Grief and Anguilh of Mind. See Ver. 1 5.
Ibid.