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uponEZEKIEL. ii
up and down between the Living Creatures : See Chapter.
Chap. i. 13. This part of the Vifion was to repre- X.
fent the Burning of the City. Coals of Fire do L/W m \J
elfewhere denote the Divine Vengeance :
See Pfal.
cxx. 4. cxl. 10. Revel, viii. 5.
Ver. $. Now the Cherubims flood on the right Ver. 3.
fide of the Houfe.'] The Cherubims which were
Part of the Vifion fhewed to Ezekiel : See Ver. 1.
and the Note upon Chapter ix. 3. they itood now
in the Inner Court, on the North Side of the
Houfe. See Ver. 18. The Chaldee Paraphrafe
underftands it of the South Side of the Houfe, but
then it is fpoken with refpect to thofe that came out
of the Temple. See Chap, xlvii. 1.
Ibid. oAnd the Cloud filled the Inner Court .]
This bright Cloud feems to be an Attendant upon
that Glory which was reprefented in this Vifion to
Ezekiel, Chapter viii. 4. x. 1. Or elfethe Words
may be underftood of the Cloud or Shekinah, removing
from the inner San&uary, and coming toward
the Door of the Houfe : See the following
Verfe.
Ver. 4. The Glory of the Lord went up from Ver. 4.
the Cherub, &:c] The Words may better be tranflated
thus, Now, (or, For) the Glory ofthe Lord
was gone uf, Sec. For the Prophet repeats here
what he had related before, Chap. ix. 3.
Ibid. oAnd the Houfe was filled with the Cloud,
and the Court was full of the "Bright nefs of the
Lord'j Glory."] A bright Cloud was the Sign of
God's Prefence, which firft filled the Tabernacle,
Exod. xl. 35. afterward the Temple, 1 KJngs viii.
10. where it fixed it felf upon the Mercy Seat,
Levit. xvi. 2, From whence God is faid fo often to
' dwell