HOLY BIBLE: Ezekiel 10 (original) (raw)

9 καὶ εἶδον καὶ ἰδοὺ τροχοὶ τέσσαρες εἱστήκεισαν ἐχόμενοι τῶν χερουβιν τροχὸς εἷς ἐχόμενος χερουβ ἑνός καὶ ἡ ὄψις τῶν τροχῶν ὡς ὄψις λίθου ἄνθρακος 10 καὶ ἡ ὄψις αὐτῶν ὁμοίωμα ἓν τοῖς τέσσαρσιν ὃν τρόπον ὅταν ᾖ τροχὸς ἐν μέσῳ τροχοῦ 11 ἐν τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτὰ εἰς τὰ τέσσαρα μέρη αὐτῶν ἐπορεύοντο οὐκ ἐπέστρεφον ἐν τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτά ὅτι εἰς ὃν ἂν τόπον ἐπέβλεψεν ἡ ἀρχὴ ἡ μία ἐπορεύοντο καὶ οὐκ ἐπέστρεφον ἐν τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτά 12 καὶ οἱ νῶτοι αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ πτέρυγες αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ τροχοὶ πλήρεις ὀφθαλμῶν κυκλόθεν τοῖς τέσσαρσιν τροχοῖς αὐτῶν 13 τοῖς δὲ τροχοῖς τούτοις ἐπεκλήθη Γελγελ ἀκούοντός μου 14 15 καὶ ἦραν τὰ χερουβιν τοῦτο τὸ ζῷον ὃ εἶδον ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Χοβαρ 16 καὶ ἐν τῷ πορεύεσθαι τὰ χερουβιν ἐπορεύοντο οἱ τροχοί καὶ οὗτοι ἐχόμενοι αὐτῶν καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐξαίρειν τὰ χερουβιν τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτῶν τοῦ μετεωρίζεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς οὐκ ἐπέστρεφον οἱ τροχοὶ αὐτῶν 17 ἐν τῷ ἑστάναι αὐτὰ εἱστήκεισαν καὶ ἐν τῷ μετεωρίζεσθαι αὐτὰ ἐμετεωρίζοντο με{T'} αὐτῶν διότι πνεῦμα ζωῆς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἦν 18 καὶ ἐξῆλθεν δόξα κυρίου ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου καὶ ἐπέβη ἐπὶ τὰ χερουβιν 19 καὶ ἀνέλαβον τὰ χερουβιν τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτῶν καὶ ἐμετεωρίσθησαν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ ἐν τῷ ἐξελθεῖν αὐτὰ καὶ οἱ τροχοὶ ἐχόμενοι αὐτῶν καὶ ἔστησαν ἐπὶ τὰ πρόθυρα τῆς πύλης οἴκου κυρίου τῆς ἀπέναντι καὶ δόξα θεοῦ Ισραηλ ἦν ἐ{P'} αὐτῶν ὑπεράνω 20 τοῦτο τὸ ζῷόν ἐστιν ὃ εἶδον ὑποκάτω θεοῦ Ισραηλ ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Χοβαρ καὶ ἔγνων ὅτι χερουβιν ἐστίν 21 τέσσαρα πρόσωπα τῷ ἑνί καὶ ὀκτὼ πτέρυγες τῷ ἑνί καὶ ὁμοίωμα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπου ὑποκάτωθεν τῶν πτερύγων αὐτῶν 22 καὶ ὁμοίωσις τῶν προσώπων αὐτῶν ταῦτα τὰ πρόσωπά ἐστιν ἃ εἶδον ὑποκάτω τῆς δόξης θεοῦ Ισραηλ ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Χοβαρ καὶ αὐτὰ ἕκαστον κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν ἐπορεύοντο

9 Such was the vision I saw; four wheels beside four cherubim, one by each, and their colour shewed like aquamarine; 10 all alike had the same appearance, of a wheel within a wheel. 11 Moved they to this quarter or that, they followed ever without ado the lead of the foremost; there was no turning about when they moved. 12 Eyes were everywhere, on body and neck and hand and wing and wheel too, for each cherub had its own wheel. 13 (It was these wheels I had heard spoken of as the whirring.[2]) 14 Fourfold was the semblance of them, now cherub, now man, now lion, now eagle. 15 They rose aloft, these cherubim, (such living figures as I had seen by Chobar; 16 the wheels accompanying them as they went, never left behind, but still at their side when they spread their wings for flight, 17 resting when they rested, rising when they rose; these too had a living impulse in them), 18 and therewith the bright presence of the Lord left the temple threshold, and stood there, cherub-throned. 19 With my own eyes I saw them, as they spread their wings and rose aloft; saw the wheels follow as they went; saw a halt made[3] at the eastern gate of the temple, and the Lord’s bright presence resting above them. 20 Full well I knew that cherubs they were, these living figures I had seen bearing God’s throne by Chobar, 21 each with four semblances, and four wings, and human hands shewing under their wings; 22 the same faces, the same looks, I had seen by Chobar, the same onward impulse of their journeying.

9 Et vidi: et ecce quatuor rotæ juxta cherubim: rota una juxta cherub unum, et rota alia juxta cherub unum: species autem rotarum erat quasi visio lapidis chrysolithi: 10 et aspectus earum similitudo una quatuor, quasi sit rota in medio rotæ. 11 Cumque ambularent, in quatuor partes gradiebantur, et non revertebantur ambulantes: sed ad locum ad quem ire declinabat quæ prima erat, sequebantur et ceteræ, nec convertebantur. 12 Et omne corpus earum, et colla, et manus, et pennæ, et circuli, plena erant oculis in circuitu quatuor rotarum. 13 Et rotas istas vocavit volubiles, audiente me. 14 Quatuor autem facies habebat unum: facies una, facies cherub, et facies secunda, facies hominis: et in tertio facies leonis, et in quarto facies aquilæ. 15 Et elevata sunt cherubim: ipsum est animal quod videram juxta fluvium Chobar. 16 Cumque ambularent cherubim, ibant pariter et rotæ juxta ea: et cum elevarent cherubim alas suas ut exaltarentur de terra, non residebant rotæ, sed et ipsæ juxta erant. 17 Stantibus illis stabant, et cum elevatis elevabantur: spiritus enim vitæ erat in eis. 18 Et egressa est gloria Domini a limine templi, et stetit super cherubim. 19 Et elevantia cherubim alas suas, exaltata sunt a terra coram me: et illis egredientibus, rotæ quoque subsecutæ sunt: et stetit in introitu portæ domus Domini orientalis, et gloria Dei Israël erat super ea. 20 Ipsum est animal quod vidi subter Deum Israël juxta fluvium Chobar, et intellexi quia cherubim essent. 21 Quatuor vultus uni, et quatuor alæ uni: et similitudo manus hominis sub alis eorum. 22 Et similitudo vultuum eorum, ipsi vultus quos videram juxta fluvium Chobar, et intuitus eorum, et impetus singulorum ante faciem suam ingredi.

[1] See note on 1.24.

[2] Literally, ‘And in my hearing he called (to) the wheels (to) them rotation (in the Latin, rotatory)’. This obscure phrase is perhaps best understood as a note on verse 2, where the same word is used in the Hebrew.

[3] Literally, ‘I saw it (or, him) halt’. It is not easy to see what noun should be supplied.

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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
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