Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 1:20

A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 19 seqq.) When the animals walked, the wheels walked alongside them. And when the animals were lifted up from the ground, the wheels were also lifted up. Wherever the spirit went, the wheels went there too, for the spirit of life was in the wheels. As the animals went, the wheels went, and as they stood, the wh…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

20Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go: the wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.

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18neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.

19And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.

— Ezekiel 1:20 —

21When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

22And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.

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