APPENDIX. NOTES. 40? 



They were also attended by four wheels ; and each wheel 

 consisted of four sides or parts. 1 It is a singular coinci- 

 dence that Brama, the first person in the Indian Triad, is 

 represented with four heads and four arms : 2 it is not im- 

 probable that the three-headed and four-headed images, 

 occurring, as they do not unfrequently, amongst the idols 

 of heathen nations, had their origin from the cherubic 

 images, and afford an additional proof that the physical 

 cherubim were the Elohim, or gods, of the heathens. 3 The 

 human hands under the wings of the cherubim appear to 

 signify, that wherever their flight was directed by Him 

 who sitteth upon them, there they took hold so as to work 

 His will, and be His instruments. 4 All these Tetrads con- 

 firm the idea of four physical cherubim, as stated in this 

 work. 



With regard to the four heads or faces, though in one 

 respect the cherubim were quadriform, in another they 

 were triform, for the prophet, in his statement of the situa- 

 tion of these faces with respect to each other, places The 

 face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side ; and 

 the face of an ox on the left side : 5 the face of the eagle 

 must therefore have been between the two sides, so as, 

 perhaps, to form with the others a triangle. If we turn to 

 the forty-first chapter, where the prophet is speaking of 

 certain parts of the temple shewn him in vision, we read 

 And it was made with cherubims and palm-trees, so that a 

 palm-tree ivas between a cherub and a cherub ; and every 

 cherub had two faces, so that the face of a man was toward 

 the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion to- 

 ward the palm tree on the other side. 6 It appears evident 



1 Ezek. i. 4 17. 2 Mauric. Hindustan, i. t. vii. 



3 See above Note '. * Ibid. p. 7, 



5 Ezek. i. 10. 6 Ver. 18, 19. 



