Ezechiel 10:15
And the cherubims were lifted up: this is the living creature that I had seen by the river Chobar.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et elevata sunt cherubim : ipsum est animal quod videram juxta fluvium Chobar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ τὰ χερουβεὶν ἦσαν τοῦτο τὸ ζῷον ὃ ἴδον ἐπὶ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Χοβάρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּרֹ֖מּוּ הַכְּרוּבִ֑ים הִ֣יא הַחַיָּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִ֖יתִי בִּֽנְהַר כְּבָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Creature. What I saw, was properly called cherubim. Charab, in Syriac means "to labour;" (Spencer) or cherubim may imply any composed and unusual figure, or "mixture," Exodus xxv. 18. (Calmet)
Ezechiel being a priest, saw that the creatures resembled the cherubim of the temple. (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius
2. The good ground of which we read in the parable brought forth fruit, some an hundred-fold, some sixtyfold, and some thirtyfold. In this threefold yield I recognize an emblem of the three different rewards of Christ which have fallen to three women closely united in blood and moral excellence. Eustochium culls the flowers of virginity. Paula sweeps the toilsome threshing floor of widowhood. Paulina keeps the bed undefiled of marriage. A mother with such daughters wins for herself on earth all that Christ has promised to give in heaven. Then to complete the team, if I may so call it, of four saints turned out by a single family, and to match the women’s virtues by those of a man, the three have a fit companion in Pammachius who is a cherub such as Ezekiel describes, brother-in-law to the first, son-in-law to the second, husband to the third. …