Ezechiel 41:18
And there were cherubims and palm trees wrought, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et fabrefacta cherubim et palmæ : et palma inter cherub et cherub, duasque facies habebat cherub.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- γεγλυμμένα χερουβείν· καὶ φοίνικες ἀνὰ μέσον χεροὺβ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον χερούβ. δύο πρόσωπα τῷ χερούβ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעָשׂ֥וּי כְּרוּבִ֖ים וְתִֽמֹרִ֑ים וְתִֽמֹרָה֙ בֵּין כְּר֣וּב לִכְר֔וּב וּשְׁנַ֥יִם פָּנִ֖ים לַכְּרֽוּב
Haydock's commentary
Two. Before he describes them with four faces. But they varied, (Exodus xxv. 18.) or the other two might be against the wall. (Calmet)
The cherub signified "knowledge," and the palm-tree victory, to shew that man must be instructed with divine knowledge, and so fight for the victory. The face of man implied that Christ would suffer, and that of a lion announced that he would overcome all his enemies. (Worthington)
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.