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and the Cherubim, physically considered, 

 indicate the same powers, I shall next advert 

 to some passages of Scripture that seem to 

 lift up the veil which covers these mysterious 

 symbols, and show us expressly what they 

 represent. 



In that sublime description of the descent 

 of the Deity for the help and deliverance 

 of David in the eighteenth Psalm, we have 

 these words ; He rode upon a Cherub and 

 did fly ; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the 

 wind. Here we have one of these symbolical 

 beings introduced and explained as the latter 

 hemistich of the verse is clearly exegetical of 

 the former by the phrase, The wings of the 

 wind. 1 If we next turn to the hundred-and- 

 fourth Psalm, in a parallel passage, we find 

 an explanation of this latter metaphor. He 

 maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh 

 upon the wings of the wind. Whence it 

 appears that the wings of the wind, by an 

 elegant metonomy, mean the clouds, conse- 

 quently the clouds are a cherub. In various 

 parts of the Old Testament, God's presence 

 and glory are manifested by and in a cloud. 



1 -Parkhurst renders these words, The wings of the Spirit, but 

 he stands alone in this. 



