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Ezekiel 1:6

Ezekiel 1:6

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And or but everyone had four faces,.... Which are described,See Gill on "Eze 1:10". The Targum multiplies the faces in a strange monstrous manner, paraphrasing the words thus,"each had four faces, and there were four faces to everyone "of them", and every creature had sixteen faces; the number of the faces of the four creatures was sixty and four;''and everyone had four wings; the seraphim in ; and the four beasts or living creatures in Re 4:8; had six wings; and so it seems that these had also, from Eze 1:11; as will be seen there; nor is this any contradiction to the account here given, since it is not said they had only four wings.

The Targum gives the same monstrous account of their wings as of their faces, saying,"each had four wings, and there were four wings for everyone of them, sixteen wings to every face, and sixty four to every creature; and the number of the wings of the four living creatures were two hundred and fifty six.'

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