He spake that sat on the throne, i.e. God, who rules the world and church. Unto the man; to Christ, as before, Ezekiel 9:2. Go in: it is said, Ezekiel 1:18, that the rings of the wheels were dreadful, but here is a Divine command which encourageth, and insureth, and lessens the dread and terror. Between the wheels; whether between the four, or between the two foremost, or hindermost, or either, between the wheels that made up one wheel, is not material to inquire. Fill thine hand: this expresseth the fainess of vengeance which would overtake them, and the certainty and speediness of judgments; for such a quantity of coals in the hand ready to be scattered abroad will very soon set all in a flame. From between the cherubims; either to intimate to us that this fire was the vengeance of God upon them; for he sits between the cherubims, and is consuming fire to sin; or to intimate that the vengeance was for sins against the grace of God, who sat between the cherubims, and thence gave out his grace toward Israel, Exodus 25:20-22 Hebrews 9:5. But abused grace will kindle into fire. Scatter them over the city, that it may take fire in all parts, and none may escape; so cast the fire, that the coals may fall on every part. He went in in my sight; which assured the prophet of the certainty, and intimated too the speed of the effect, which will be within five years space.
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Ezekiel 10:2
2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine handa with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.