Matthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 41:18 - 41:18

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 41:18 - 41:18


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Now we are acquainted with the ornaments, the beautiful carving, which in all parts mentioned were to be seen.



Made; beautified.



Cherubims; generally taken for the portrait of angels, and framed to the beauty of young men with wings. Yet is the description of them very different in different places, as the curious observe in Ezekiel’s vision, Eze 1, Isaiah’s vision, Isa 6, John’s vision, Re 4, and in Solomon’s temple.



Palm trees; a very beautiful, upright tree, from a straight, well-grown body, spreading its head with large boughs and branches, which were used on occasions of joy, and were emblems of victory, Joh_12:13 Rev_7:9. These were so engraven, that each palm tree was between two cherubs, and each cherub between two palm trees, and this ariseth from the different aspect, or numbering them.



Two faces, curiously wrought on the same head, somewhat like a Janus’s head; what these facts were the next verse tells us.