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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 1:16 - King James

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Eze 1:16 King James The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
appearance . . . work--their form and the material of their work.

beryl--rather, "the glancing appearance of the Tarshish stone"; the chrysolite or topaz, brought from Tarshish or Tartessus in Spain. It was one of the gems in the breastplate of the high priest (Exo 28:20; Sol 5:14; Dan 10:6).

four had one likeness--The similarity of the wheels to one another implies that there is no inequality in all God's works, that all have a beautiful analogy and proportion.
 
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6 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.