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living -creatures 1 which by most ancient 

 writers are thought to be synonymous with 

 the cherubim are represented as repeating 

 the Trisagium ; the latter says They rest 

 not day and night, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, 

 Lord God Almighty, This triple ascription 

 of Holiness is thought by many to intimate 

 a Trinity of Persons in the Godhead, and 

 that the physical cherubim or seraphim 

 symbolically represent that mystery. Arch- 

 deacon Sharp, and after him Archbishop 

 Newcome, 2 have observed, that this opinion 

 is inconsistent with these symbolical animals 

 falling down and worshipping the Lamb, and 

 ascribing their redemption to him ; an ob- 

 jection which appears to me not to have been 

 satisfactorily answered. It should, however, 

 be taken into consideration that the cherubim 

 are symbols not solely of physical, but of 

 all governing powers ; and that, therefore, in 

 order to interpret rightly any act of theirs, the 



When our Saviour says of the wind Thou hearest the sound 

 thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it 

 goeth ; may not the same thing be meant as by Isaiah's Descrip- 

 tion of the Seraphim ? 



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* Sharp On the Cherubim, 305. Newcome's Ezekiel, i. 10, 

 note. 



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