Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
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Gill's Exposition
And then one beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "behold the likeness of a man"; reading "a man", for "fire"; but without supposing…
Barnes' Notes
The appearance of fire - In margin reference, seen as the appearance of a man enthroned upon the cherubim. Here He stands apart from the throne revealing Himself to His servant. Compare Dan 3:25 note.…
Adam Clarke
The appearance of fire - See the note on Eze 1:27.
Ezekiel was now in Babylon; but the messages of wrath he had delivered in the foregoing chapters related to Jerusalem, for in the peace or trouble thereof the captives looked upon themselves to have…
Cambridge Bible
as the appearance of fire More naturally, the appearance of a man, as LXX., cf. ch. Eze 1:26-27, "the appearance of a man" (a different word, however), where the description is the same, viz. fire…
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