1 Et factum est in trigesimo anno, in quarto, in quinta mensis, cum essem in medio captivorum juxta fluvium Chobar, aperti sunt cæli, et vidi visiones Dei. 2 In quinta mensis, ipse est annus quintus transmigrationis regis Joachin, 3 factum est verbum Domini ad Ezechielem filium Buzi sacerdotem, in terra Chaldæorum, secus flumen Chobar: et facta est super eum ibi manus Domini. 4 Et vidi, et ecce ventus turbinis veniebat ab aquilone, et nubes magna, et ignis involvens, et splendor in circuitu ejus: et de medio ejus, quasi species electri, id est, de medio ignis: 5 et in medio ejus similitudo quatuor animalium. Et hic aspectus eorum, similitudo hominis in eis. 6 Quatuor facies uni, et quatuor pennæ uni. 7 Pedes eorum, pedes recti, et planta pedis eorum quasi planta pedis vituli: et scintillæ quasi aspectus æris candentis. 8 Et manus hominis sub pennis eorum, in quatuor partibus: et facies et pennas per quatuor partes habebant. 9 Junctæque erant pennæ eorum alterius ad alterum: non revertebantur cum incederent, sed unumquodque ante faciem suam gradiebatur. 10 Similitudo autem vultus eorum, facies hominis et facies leonis a dextris ipsorum quatuor, facies autem bovis a sinistris ipsorum quatuor, et facies aquilæ desuper ipsorum quatuor. 11 Facies eorum et pennæ eorum extentæ desuper: duæ pennæ singulorum jungebantur, et duæ tegebant corpora eorum. 12 Et unumquodque eorum coram facie sua ambulabat: ubi erat impetus spiritus, illuc gradiebantur, nec revertebantur cum ambularent. 13 Et similitudo animalium, aspectus eorum quasi carbonum ignis ardentium, et quasi aspectus lampadarum: hæc erat visio discurrens in medio animalium, splendor ignis, et de igne fulgur egrediens. 14 Et animalia ibant et revertebantur, in similitudinem fulguris coruscantis. 15 Cumque aspicerem animalia, apparuit rota una super terram juxta animalia, habens quatuor facies. 16 Et aspectus rotarum et opus earum quasi visio maris: et una similitudo ipsarum quatuor: et aspectus earum et opera quasi sit rota in medio rotæ. 17 Per quatuor partes earum euntes ibant, et non revertebantur cum ambularent. 18 Statura quoque erat rotis, et altitudo, et horribilis aspectus: et totum corpus oculis plenum in circuitu ipsarum quatuor. 19 Cumque ambularent animalia, ambulabant pariter et rotæ juxta ea: et cum elevarentur animalia de terra, elevabantur simul et rotæ. 20 Quocumque ibat spiritus, illuc, eunte spiritu, et rotæ pariter elevabantur sequentes eum: spiritus enim vitæ erat in rotis. 21 Cum euntibus ibant, et cum stantibus stabant: et cum elevatis a terra, pariter elevabantur et rotæ sequentes ea, quia spiritus vitæ erat in rotis. 22 Et similitudo super capita animalium firmamenti, quasi aspectus crystalli horribilis, et extenti super capita eorum desuper. 23 Sub firmamento autem pennæ eorum rectæ alterius ad alterum: unumquodque duabus alis velabat corpus suum, et alterum similiter velabatur. 24 Et audiebam sonum alarum, quasi sonum aquarum multarum, quasi sonum sublimis Dei: cum ambularent, quasi sonus erat multitudinis ut sonus castrorum: cumque starent, demittebantur pennæ eorum. 25 Nam cum fieret vox super firmamentum quod erat super caput eorum, stabant, et submittebant alas suas. 26 Et super firmamentum quod erat imminens capiti eorum, quasi aspectus lapidis sapphiri similitudo throni: et super similitudinem throni similitudo quasi aspectus hominis desuper. 27 Et vidi quasi speciem electri, velut aspectum ignis, intrinsecus ejus per circuitum: a lumbis ejus et desuper, et a lumbis ejus usque deorsum, vidi quasi speciem ignis splendentis in circuitu, 28 velut aspectum arcus cum fuerit in nube in die pluviæ. Hic erat aspectus splendoris per gyrum.
Ezekiel 1 Clementine Vulgate
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Ezekiel
The priest, son of Buzi, among the exiles by the Chebar Canal to whom the word of the LORD came.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 24:24
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- 1 Matthew 3:16; Acts 7:56; Revelation 19:11; Ezekiel 11:24; Revelation 4:1
- 2 2 Kings 24:12–15; Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 40:1; Ezekiel 29:17
- 3 Ezekiel 3:22; Ezekiel 3:14; 2 Kings 3:15; 1 Kings 18:46; Ezekiel 8:1
- 4 Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2; Jeremiah 23:19; Jeremiah 1:13–14; Isaiah 21:1
- 5 Revelation 4:6–8; Revelation 6:6; Ezekiel 1:26
- 6 Ezekiel 10:14; Ezekiel 10:21–22; Ezekiel 1:8–11; Isaiah 6:2; Exodus 25:20
- 7 Revelation 1:15; Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 1:13; Psalm 104:4; Leviticus 11:47
- 8 Ezekiel 10:21; Ezekiel 10:18; Ezekiel 10:11; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 10:2
- 9 Ezekiel 10:22; Ezekiel 1:11–12; Luke 9:62; 2 Chronicles 3:11–12; 1 Corinthians 1:10
- 10 Ezekiel 10:14; Revelation 4:7; 1 Corinthians 9:9–10; Luke 15:10; Deuteronomy 28:49
- 11 Isaiah 6:2; Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 10:16; Ezekiel 10:19
- 12 Ezekiel 1:9; Ezekiel 1:20–21; Ezekiel 10:22; Hebrews 1:14; Ezekiel 1:17
- 13 Psalm 104:4; Revelation 4:5; Revelation 10:1; Daniel 10:5–6; Matthew 28:3
- 14 Zechariah 4:10; Matthew 24:27; Daniel 9:21; Mark 13:27; Luke 17:24
- 15 Daniel 7:9; Ezekiel 10:9; Ezekiel 1:19–21; Revelation 4:7; Ezekiel 1:6
- 16 Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 10:9–11; Psalm 40:5; Psalm 36:6; Exodus 39:13
- 17 Ezekiel 1:9; Ezekiel 1:12; Ezekiel 10:1–11; Isaiah 55:11
- 18 Ezekiel 10:12; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 4:8; Psalm 97:2–5; Psalm 77:16–19
- 19 Ezekiel 10:16; Ezekiel 10:19; Psalm 103:20
- 20 Ezekiel 1:12; Ezekiel 10:17; 1 Corinthians 14:32; Zechariah 6:1–8
- 21 Ezekiel 10:17; Ezekiel 1:19–20; Romans 8:2
- 22 Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 1:26; Revelation 4:6; Job 37:22; Exodus 24:10
- 23 Psalm 89:7; Ezekiel 1:24; Job 4:18; Ezekiel 1:11–12; Luke 17:10
- 24 Ezekiel 43:2; Daniel 10:6; Revelation 1:15; Psalm 29:3–9; Revelation 19:6
- 25 Ezekiel 1:22
- 26 Ezekiel 10:1; Exodus 24:10; Revelation 1:13; Daniel 10:18; Ezekiel 1:22
- 27 Ezekiel 1:4; Ezekiel 8:2; Hebrews 12:29; Psalm 97:2; Psalm 50:3
- 28 Revelation 10:1; Revelation 4:3; Genesis 17:3; Ezekiel 3:23; Exodus 24:16
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He saw the likeness of the glory of the Lord; not the Lord Himself, but the likeness of His glory, not the glory itself, as it really is.
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… Ezekiel the Prophet even made a description of them, as far as was possible, saying that every one has four faces, one of a man, another of a lion, another of an eagle, and another of a calf; and that each one had six wings, and they had eyes on all sides; and that under each one was a …
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