Eze 1:15-20, 10:8-13, 16 | TSK | STEP

a beryl.{Tarshish} is generally rendered by the LXX. and the Vulgate the chrysolite, so called by the ancients (from [chrusos (chrysos) ,] gold, and [lithos ,] a stone,) because of its fine gold yellow colour. It is now called by the moderns the topaz; is a very beautiful and valuable gem in its pure and perfect state, though very rarely found so; and the finer pieces of it are in hardness second only to the diamond. The Vulgate, however, in ch. 1:16, renders, {quasi visio maris,} "as the appearance of the seas," i.e., azure; and Dr. Geddes (on Ex 28:10) says, that, with {Abarbanel,} he believes the beryl to be intended. It is a pellucid gem, called by our lapidaries, {aqua marina,} of a sea or bluish green colour, found in the East Indies and about the gold mines of Peru. The genuine beryl never receives any other mixture of colour; and in its perfect state approaches the hardness of garnet.

1:16; Ps 36:6; 97:2; 104:24; Ro 11:33

they went upon.

22; 1:17

whither.

1:20; Mt 8:8-10

body. Heb. flesh. were.

1:18; Re 4:6,8

it was cried, etc. or, they were called in my hearing,Wheel, or Galgal.

Ezekiel 10:16

1:19-21