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Ezekiel 1:18 (WEB)
As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of eyes all around.

Fathers and councils · 4

Jerome, Letters Letter 39
“…did so because Christ had not yet broken open the door of paradise, nor quenched with his blood the flaming sword and the whirling of the guardian cherubim.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 24: cf. Ezek. i. 15–20. Here as in his Comm. on Eccles. iii. 16–22, Jerome follows Origen, who, in his homily de Engastrimytho, lays down that until…
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Jerome, Letters Letter 53
“With them the whole body is full of eyes, they glitter as sparks, they run and return like lightning, their feet are straight feet, and lifted up, their backs also are winged, ready to fly in all directions.” — editor's note: Ezek. i. 18, Vulg.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 11
“And the other describes the Cherubic Chariot of God, and the Throne upon them, and the Firmament over it, and Him that shewed Himself in the Firmament, and Voices, and Forces, and Deeds.” — editor's note: Ezek. i. 4–28.
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Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5Part III
“Wherefore those who are over others are to be admonished, that through earnestness of circumspection they have eyes watchful within and round about, and strive to become living creatures of heaven (Ezek. i. 18).” — the author cites it
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