As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
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Gill's Exposition
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,…
Barnes' Notes
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 they…
Adam Clarke
As for their rings - The strakes which form the rim or periphery.
They were dreadful - They were exceedingly great in their diameter, so that it was tremendous to look from the part that touched the…
The prophet is very exact in making and recording his observations concerning this vision. And here we have,
I. The notice he took of the wheels, Eze 1:15-21. The glory of God appears not only in the…
Cambridge Bible
so high that they were dreadful lit. as for their rings, there was height to them and there was fear to them;R.V. they were high and dreadful. The word "fear," however, nowhere means terribleness but…
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