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Ezekiel's "chariot vision", by Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650). Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. [25] "Living creatures": New Oxford Annotated Bible identified these as "Cherubim" (10:15, 20), although "uncharacteristically …
Ezekiel's vision of the four living creatures in Ezekiel 1 are identified as cherubim in Ezekiel 10, [1] who are God's throne bearers. [2] Cherubim as minor guardian deities [3] of temple or palace thresholds are known throughout the Ancient East. Each of Ezekiel's cherubim have four faces, that of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. [2]
Ezekiel 1–20: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-00954-2. Greenberg, Moshe (1997). Ezekiel 21–37: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-18200-7. Klein, Ralph W. (1988). Ezekiel: The Prophet and his Message. Columbia, SC: University of South ...
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
Inaugural vision Ezekiel 1:1–3:27: God approaches Ezekiel as the divine warrior, riding in His battle chariot. The chariot is drawn by four living creatures, each having four faces (those of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle) and four wings.
The elements of the Christian tetramorph first appear in the vision of Ezekiel, who describes the four creatures as they appear to him in a vision: As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of ...
English: Ezekiel’s vision of God, four beasts, and a wheel within a wheel, from Hans Holbein the Younger (1538), Historiarum veteris instrumenti icones ad vivum expressae, Lyon: Gaspard et Melchior Trechsel, no. 78.
Hans Holbein the Younger, Ezekiel’s vision of God, the four living creatures, and a wheel within a wheel, published in Historiarum veteris instrumenti icones ad vivum expressae (1538). In the early 20th century, the scholar Heinz Strauss dated the image to the period 1520–30, while Heinrich Röttinger suggested that it had been made in 1530 ...