His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Ver. 6. His body also was like the beryl.] Of an azure colour, like the heavens. The "second Adam is the Lord from heaven." 1Co 15:47 Some render it the chrysolite, which is of the colour of the sea; to note, say they, his power to purge the Church by his Word, Spirit, and judgments, as by the water of the sea.
And his face as the appearance of lightning.] Which both shineth and terrifieth, and soon appeareth from the one end of the heaven to the other; Mat 24:27 Christ suddenly discovereth all things though never so remote. Psa 90:8 Eze 1:13
And his eyes as lamps of fire.] To note his omniscience, his wrath also and readiness to revenge. Jer 32:19
And his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass.] Scintillantes purissime. To note his omnipotence in the execution of his wrath while he trampleth on his enemies, as he that hath brazen arms and feet cart easily break in pieces a potter's vessel.
And the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.] Strepitus - i.e., Maris. Or, As the noise of many waters, Rev 1:15 noting the efficacy of Christ's doctrine. See Acts 2:4 .