Ezekiel 1:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their ringsf were full of eyes round about them four. ”

Ezekiel 1:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rings - The felloes (circumference) of the wheels: they were both high and terrible. The “eyes” may have been no more than dazzling spots adding to their brilliancy. But it seems more likely that...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1-3. Ezekiel Enters upon his Ministry. Ezekiel 1:1-28 . Ezekiel's Vision. Ezekiel 1:1-3 . Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision o...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

high . In the sense of sublimity.
Ezekiel 1:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

What he says about the circumferences of the wheels may seem superfluous, but he refers to the second clause of the verse, where he says, that these circumferences were full of eyes. Here, then...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. As for their rings - The strakes which form the rim or periphery. They were...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold one wheel upon the earth— The prophet now proceeds to describe the wheels of this chariot borne by the living creatures. "Now, as I contemplated these living creatures (says he) there app...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. Their rings - i:e., felloes, or circumferences of the wheels. Were f...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 1. Ezekiel's Call and Consecration as a Prophet (Ezekiel 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory ( Ez...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Their rings. — The same word is used twice in this verse, and means what we call the felloes. “They were both high and terrible,” i.e., they had both these characteristics, but not, as seems to...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD Ezekiel 1:1-28 IT might be hazardous to attempt, from the general considerations advanced in the last two Chapter s, to form a conception of Ezekiel's state of mi...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Vision of God's Majesty Ezekiel 1:1-21 A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four living creatures...
Ezekiel 1:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and the second the voice he heard. Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapte...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is worthy the Reader's closest attention, how often during this account the appearance of a man is spoken of. Was it, (for I only ask the question, and do not presume to decide), to lead the Proph...
Ezekiel 1:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As for their rings, they were so high, that they were dreadful ,.... The circles and circumferences of them were "high": which may denote the visibility and extensiveness of the churches of Christ,...
Ezekiel 1:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings [were] full of eyes round about them four. Ver. 18. As for their rings they were so high. ] Apsides earum tam amplae...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When they went Namely, the wheels; they went upon their four sides The wheels being supposed spherical as a globe, by an exact framing of two wheels one in the other, the four semicircles, which...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Wheels. B. C. 595. 15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold o...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their rings; the circumference of the wheels, the whole compass of the wheels, or the fellows (as a carter calls the whole roundle of his wheels). They were so high; the two strakes, the thicknes...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘As for their rims (‘rings') they were high and frightening, and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.' This may suggest the huge size of the wheels as it sped on, ‘high and frightening...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2. THE VIEW GIVEN TO EZEKIEL OF “THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD” (Chap. Ezekiel 1:4-28 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:4 . The storm-cloud. “A whirlwind,” a tempest such as Job perceived (...
Ezekiel 1:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:1 . In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and fifth day of the month. The Jews were accustomed to reckon time from great and auspicious events, as the call of Abraham, the exodus f...
Ezekiel 1:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION For the life of the prophet prior to the vision which this chapter relates, and which constituted his call to that office, see Introduction. Ezekiel 1:1 Now ; literally, and....
Ezekiel 1:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Four-Faced Wheels and the Four Creatures.
Ezekiel 1:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 10:12 ; Isaiah 55:9 ; Job 37:22-24 ; Proverbs 15:3 ; Psalms 77:16-19 ; Psalms 97:2-5 ; Revelation 4:6 ; Revelation 4:8 ; Zechariah 4:10
Ezekiel 1:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The rings — The circumference of the wheels. Dreadful — Their very height imprest a fear on the beholder. Them four — Every one of the four wheels. How fitly do the wheels, their motion, their heig...

Ezekiel 1:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 1:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 1:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 1:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 1:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 1:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 1:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 1:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 1:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 1:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes