5183 Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1837, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Cambridge Press : EZEKIEL. I. The call of Ezekiel to the prophetic office. - CH. I. III. 21. 1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw vis2 ions of God. On the fifth day of the month, in the 3 fifth year of the captivity of king Jehoiachin, the word of Jehovah came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him. 4 And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came from the north, a great cloud, and a mass of fire; and a brightness was round about it, and in the midst of it the appearance of bright brass, in the midst of the fire. 5 And in the midst of it were the forms of four living creatures. And this was their appearance. They had 6 the form of a man. And every one had four faces, 7 and every one had four wings. And their feet were upright; and the sole of their feet was as the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like polished brass. 8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, and all four had faces and wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned they went; they went every one not about when 10 straight forward. As for the form of their faces, all four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side, and all four had the face of an ox on the left side, and all four had also the face of an eagle. 11 Thus were their faces. And their wings were expanded upward; two wings of every one were joined, and two 12 covered their bodies. And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went, and they turned not about when they went. 13 And the appearance of the living creatures was as coals of fire, burning like torches; and the fire moved about among the living creatures, and shone forth 14 brightly; and out of the fire came forth lightning. And the living creatures ran backward and forward like a flash of lightning. 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, there stood a wheel upon the earth by each of the living crea16 tures, with its four sides. The appearance of the wheels, and their work, was like that of a chrysolite, and all four had one form, and their appearance and their work was, as if a wheel had been within a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides, and 18 they turned not about when they went. As for their felloes, they were high and terrible; and their felloes were full of eyes round about upon all four of them. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Whith20 ersoever the spirit was to go, they went, whithersoever the spirit was to go; and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creatures was |