Cherubims.
This word is not in the first vision, Chap. 1. there they are cal'd the living creatures; here Cherubims, which is evidence
An exposition continued upon the sixt, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, with useful observations thereupon. Delivered in severall lectures in London, By William Greenhill.
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- An exposition continued upon the sixt, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, with useful observations thereupon. Delivered in severall lectures in London, By William Greenhill.
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that they are the same, and may strengthen the interpretation given to be of the Angels.
There is a difference between the words, Chap. 1.22. where it's said, the firmament upon the heads of the living creature: And the words here which are the firmament that was above the head of the Cherubims; there its living creature and heads, here its Cheru∣bims and head, which may mind us of their onenesse and consent in judgement and operations. If there be heads, its but as one living creature acts from those heads; if there be Cherubims, they have all but as one head.
Why are they cal'd Cherubims here, and not living creatures as before?
I suppose the reason is this: The former vision was at Chebar, in the open field by a rivers side, this was in the Temple where the Cherubims were, 1 Kings 8.6, 7. and so that notion suited with them there.
2. In Babylon, a prophane land, the Prophet sees living crea∣tures, he had a generall and confus'd apprehension of them; but when he is in the Temple, he hath a more cleare and distinct knowledge of them. Hence you have this note, The Lord did more clearely make known himselfe and mysteries in the holy land then in other places, Psal. 76.1. In Judah is God knowne more fully and familiarly then elsewhere: A vision in Babylon is not so cleare as a vision in Sion, Psalm 29.9. In his Temple doth every one speake of his glory.