John Calvin on Ezekiel 1:20
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Ezekiel1:20
Thus I arrange the clauses, for though others join the first; clause with the second part of the verse, it is too forced. Therefore the Prophet repeats what he had said, though he is rather prolix. Afterwards he adds, that the wheels were raised, taking the word generally for elevated, but not exactly as in the last and next verse. I now add the next verse —
Ezekiel 1:21
21. When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21. Ambulando ambulebant: i.e. When the living creatures went, the wheels went, and when the one stood the other stood. — Calvin. et cum starent stabant: et cum elevarentur, This word, נשא, nesa, is correctly used for being lifted up from the earth, for he had said “raised” before without any addition. — Calvin. attollebantur rotae simul cum ipsis; quia spiritus animalis in rotis.
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