Ezekiel 1:20 (WEB)
Wherever the spirit was to go, they went. The spirit was to go there. The wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.9Conference XIII
“…them:” and “I will take away the stony heart from their flesh and will give them an heart of flesh that they may walk in Thy statutes and keep My judgments?”” — editor's note: Ezek. i. 19, 20.
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Jerome
“…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…
Read the whole comment“They hold together each by each and are interwoven one with another: like wheels within wheels they roll along and go whithersoever the breath of the Holy Spirit wafts them.” — editor's note: Ezek. i. 20.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“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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