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.
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Gill's Exposition
His body also was like the beryl,.... That is, that part of it which was not covered with the linen garment, and was seen, was like such a precious stone, said to be of an azure and sky colour,…
Barnes' Notes
His body also was like the beryl - There is a very striking resemblance between the description here given and that of the Saviour as he appeared to John in Patmos, Rev 1:13-16. See the notes at that…
Adam Clarke
His body also was like the beryl - The description of this person is very similar to that of our Lord in Rev 1:13-15.
This vision is dated in the third year of Cyrus, that is, of his reign after the conquest of Babylon, his third year since Daniel became acquainted with him and a subject to him. Here is,
I. A general…
Cambridge Bible
The dazzling appearance of his person.
His body The word used in Eze 1:11; Eze 1:23.
the beryl the chrysolith (as LXX. in Ex. and Eze 28:13) said (see Smith, D. B., s. v. beryl) to be the topaz of the…
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