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NASB | Ezekiel 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ezekiel 1:16 Regarding the appearance of the wheels and their construction: they gleamed like chrysolite (beryl, olivine); and the four were made alike. Their appearance and construction were a wheel [set at a right angle] within a wheel. |
Bible Question:
What does "a wheel within a wheel" mean? Don't know verse. |
Bible Answer: Hi, Judy... The phrase is used twice in the Scriptures: Ezekiel 1:16; 10:10. John Calvin wrote the following: "God therefore, whilst He turns round the world, preserves an even course with respect to Himself, so that what we call changes or revolutions have no inequality with respect to Himself, but each is in harmony with all the others. At length He adds, their aspect and workmanship, or form, was as if each wheel were in the midst of a wheel, so that the bending of one wheel is across that of another. For he does not mean to say, that one wheel was greater and another less, but that two wheels were so united that they were at right angles to each other. Now, we may see why the wheels were double; viz., because God does not seem to hold on a direct course, but to have various changes, and, as it were, in contrary directions, as if the motion by which each creature is inspired with vigor was drawn in different ways. Therefore it is said, one wheel was in the middle, of another Finally, here God represents to us to the life what experience teaches. For first, the world is carried, along just as the wheels run round, and that, too, not simply but with such great variety that God seems to send forth his impelling force, now to the right hand and now to the left. This, then, is as if two wheels were entangled together." In Him, Doc |
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DocTrinsograce |