Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 10:10
And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
10. Cf. ch. Eze 1:16.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 10. A wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.] It is difficult to comprehend this description. It is generally supposed to mean one wheel within another, cutting each other at right angles. This, in my opinion, will not account for the motions attributed to these wheels; nor can I see how, on this supposition, they could have any motion; for if one was moved on its axis, the other must be dragged contrary to its axis. I have conjectured it rather to mean a wheel within a wheel, or a wheel with two rims, working on the same axis. See on Eze 1:16-18. It is however no matter of faith; and the reader may judge as he thinks proper. For other matters relative to this chariot, wheels, cherubim, wings, &c., I must refer to the notes on the first chapter. And perhaps from the whole of this vision and its difficulties, he will see the propriety of the council of rabbins ordering Rabbi Ananias three hundred barrels of oil to light his lamp during the time it would be necessary for him to employ in explaining this one vision.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Though there might be various aspects and faces of things, yet in this great variety there was great harmony; all of one likeness; see Eze 1:16; and move to one great end.
They four; wheels.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. four had one likenessInthe wonderful variety of God’s works there is the greatest harmony:
“In human works,though labored on with pain,
One thousand movementsscarce one purpose gain;
In God’s one single dothits end produce,
Yet serves to second,too, some other use.
(See on Eze1:16).
wheel . . . in . . . awheelcutting one another at fight angles, so that the wholemight move in any of the four directions or quarters of the world.God’s doings, however involved they seem to us, cohere, so that lowercauses subserve the higher.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness,…. They were exactly like one another; they were all composed of the same matter, had all the colour of a beryl stone, were all in the same form of a wheel; and in matter, form, and shape, entirely tallied and agreed one with another, as true Gospel churches do:
[See comments on Eze 1:16];
as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel: not included in one another, but were formed in a cross or transverse way;
[See comments on Eze 1:16].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
We have also explained this part. He says that all had the same aspect, not because God always governs events in an equable manner, for experience opposes this. But he means that the appearance was the same, because the variety which causes darkness to our eyes, does not remove the perpetual and well-arranged tenor of the works of God. Hence there is one appearance to the four wheels, because all God’s works agree among themselves; and although their wonderful variety draws our eyes this way and that, yet he knows how to direct to his own purposes things which appear so dissipated. There is again a kind of concession, when he says, that wheel was in the midst of wheel For we see things so mutually involved, that no distinction occurs to us when we consider God’s works by our own carnal sense. If we wish, therefore, to judge concerning God’s works, wheel will be in the midst of wheel; that is, there will be wonderful perplexity, and this will hold us so bound together, that our minds cannot extricate themselves. This, therefore, is the concession, that. wheel was in the midst of wheel; but the common error is corrected directly afterwards, when the Prophet adds that the wheels were full of eyes It follows then —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Eze 10:10 And [as for] their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ver. 10. As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. ] So intricate and perplexed often times are God’s ways and works, that the wisest men know not what to make of them. Zec 14:6 In that day the light shall neither be clear nor dark, but between both, tanquam .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 1:16, Psa 36:6, Psa 97:2, Psa 104:24, Rom 11:33
Reciprocal: 1Ki 7:30 – wheels Eze 1:6 – And every one had four faces
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 10:10. These four wheels refer to the “four world empires” and the creatures of Eze 1:5, and the wheel in the midst of a wheel is explained in verse 16 of that chapter. The following verses of this chapter will also deal witii those empires, and many of the same symbols will be used that were used in the former chapter. There may be some variation in a part of them, but that is because more than one trait can be said of different creatures and things, and a writer may select one, now another, for his comparison, and all of them would be true. Let the reader please see the comments on verse 10 of the first chapter.