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asserted of the whole body, backs, hands, wings, wheels.
“As for the wheels it was called in my hearing, Galgal”
{wheel, or roll, roll]. In verse 18 we see a move of the
gravest significance: “ Then the glory of Jehovah de­
parted from off the threshold of the house, and stood
over the cherubim. And the cherubim lifted up their
wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight:
w hen they went out, the wheels also were beside them,
and every one stood at the door of the east gate of Je­
hovah’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them above. This is the living creature that I
saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar;
and I knew that they were the cherubim. Every one
had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and
the likeness of the hands of a man was under their
wings. And the likeness of their faces was the same
faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appear­
ances and themselves: they went every one straight
forward.” (Ver. 18—22.) There might be a lingering
over the east gate, but the glory was departing.

CHAPTER XL
This is entirely confirmed by chapter xi. which com­
pletes this portion of the prophecy. In the vision of
Jehovah Ezekiel is given to behold the excessive and
scoffing presumption of the leaders in Jerusalem who
counselled the king Zedekiah to his and their ruin in
flat contradiction of Jehovah’s message by Jeremiah,