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495TII ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 

 MONDAY, APRIL 5th, 1909. 



David Howard, Esq., F.C.S., F.I.C. (Vice-President}, 

 IN THE Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. E. Caius-AVilson, of High Barnet, was elected a Missionary 

 Associate of the Institute. 



The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



EZEKIELS VISION OF THE DIVIXE GLORY^ 

 By C. A. Carus-Wilsox, M.A., M.Inst.E.E. 



FEW parts of Old Testament literature present greater 

 difiiculty than the account given by Ezekiel of his Vision 

 of the Divine Glory. The key to its elucidation is, I believe, 

 to be found in recognising that the supernatural revelation 

 given to the Hebrew prophet was based on a natural 

 phenomenon, a rare and splendid appearance in the heavens, 

 which became henceforth a symbol and shadow of the Heaven 

 of heavens. 



It will be interesting in the first place to notice exactly where 

 Ezekiel was when he saw his Vision. The map of the Euphrates 

 Valley shows the general geographical features of that district 

 M'itli the Tigris, and the river Khabui^ a tributary of the 

 Euphrates, on whose banks Ezekiel was stationed at the time. 

 At a distance of 120 miles to the north-east were the ruins of 

 Nineveh which had been destroyed seventeen years previously, 

 and from which, according to some authorities, Ezekiel had 

 borrowed the imagery of his Vision, tlie cherubim having 



* The paper was illustrated by two lantern slides, from the original of 

 the first of which the frontispiece of the present volume is reproduced. 



