INTRODUCTION. Ixxiii 



and sometimes in such terms as bring to our 

 mind, to compare great things with small, the 

 chariots and charioteering of mortals. Thus 

 we are told of The chariot of the cherubim 

 that spread out their wings, and covered the 

 ark of the covenant of the Lord. 1 And in 

 Ezekiel's mystic visions, the glory of Jehovah 

 sometimes went up from the cherubic chariot 

 to the temple, when The house was filled with 

 the cloud, and the court was full of the 

 brightness of the Lord's glory? And again, 

 the glory of the Lord departs from the house, 

 and stands over the cherubim, when mount- 

 ing on high from the earth, The glory of the 

 God of Israel was over them above. 3 A 

 common epithet of God, as king of Israel, 

 was that of Insessor of the cherubim, 4 Whose 

 name is called by the name of the Lord God 

 of Hosts that dwelleth between the cherubim; 

 or he that sitteth upon, above, or between the 

 cherubim ; or, as it may be rendered, In- 

 habiteth the cherubim. These expressions 

 allude, not only to the presence of God in 



1 1 Chron. xxviii. 18. 



2 Ezek. x. 4. a Ibid. 19. 



* 1 Sam. xiv. 4. '2 Sam. vi. 2. '2 Kings, xix. 15. Ps. 

 Ixxx. 1. xcix. 1, &c. 



