10:6 他吩咐那穿細麻衣的人說：「要從旋轉的輪內基路伯中間取火。」那人就進去站在一個輪子旁邊。
10:7 有一個基路伯從基路伯中伸手到基路伯中間的火那裡，取些放在那穿細麻衣的人兩手中，那人就拿出去了。
10:8 在基路伯翅膀之下，顯出有人手的樣式。
10:9 我又觀看，見基路伯旁邊有四個輪子。這基路伯旁有一個輪子，那基路伯旁有一個輪子，每基路伯都是如此；輪子的顏色（原文是形狀）彷彿水蒼玉。
10:10 至於四輪的形狀，都是一個樣式，彷彿輪中套輪。
10:11 輪行走的時候，向四方都能直行，並不掉轉。頭向何方，他們也隨向何方，行走的時候並不掉轉。
10:12 他們全身，連背帶手和翅膀，並輪周圍都滿了眼睛。這四個基路伯的輪子都是如此。
10:13 至於這些輪子，我耳中聽見說是旋轉的。
10:14 基路伯各有四臉：第一是基路伯的臉，第二是人的臉，第三是獅子的臉，第四是鷹的臉。
10:15 基路伯升上去了；這是我在迦巴魯河邊所見的活物。
10:16 基路伯行走，輪也在旁邊行走。基路伯展開翅膀，離地上升，輪也不轉離他們旁邊。
10:17 那些站住，這些也站住；那些上升，這些也一同上升，因為活物的靈在輪中。
10:18 耶和華的榮耀從殿的門檻那裡出去，停在基路伯以上。
10:19 基路伯出去的時候，就展開翅膀，在我眼前離地上升。輪也在他們的旁邊，都停在耶和華殿的東門口。在他們以上有以色列上帝的榮耀。
10:20 這是我在迦巴魯河邊所見、以色列上帝榮耀以下的活物，我就知道他們是基路伯。
10:21 各有四個臉面，四個翅膀，翅膀以下有人手的樣式。
10:22 至於他們臉的模樣，並身體的形像，是我從前在迦巴魯河邊所看見的。他們俱各直往前行。
And when he commanded the man clothed in
linen, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,”
he went in and stood beside a wheel. And
a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was
between the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man
clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their
wings.
And
I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside
each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl. And as for their appearance, the four had the
same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel. When they went, they went in any of their
four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the
front wheel faced, the others followed without turning as they went. And their whole body, their rims, and their
spokes, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around—the wheels
that the four of them had. As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing
“the whirling wheels.” And every one had
four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was
a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an
eagle.
And
the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the
Chebar canal. And when the cherubim
went, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings
to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them. When they stood still, these stood still, and
when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living
creatures was in them.
Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and
stood over the cherubim. And the
cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as
they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of
the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them. These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of
Israel by the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim. Each had four faces, and each four wings, and
underneath their wings the likeness of human hands. And as for the likeness of their faces, they
were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. Each one
of them went straight forward.
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由先知的描述知道上帝是漸漸的遠離聖殿、耶路撒冷，幾乎是一步一回頭，不是立刻就拋棄聖殿的。但是無奈，最後上帝還是完全離棄自己的殿。因為猶大人沒有改變，上帝也無法忍耐。
這也看見上帝在舊約時代，只能透過外在的先知警告祂的子民，來歸回祂的面前，果效是有限的！但是新約時代是不同的，上帝透過耶穌基督賜下聖靈在祂兒女的心中，使他們重生，活出新生的樣式！
而我們今日的樣式，全部是上帝賜下聖靈的工作，是絕對可以讓我們真正活出上帝兒女的生命。而在教會生活中，我們要互相激勵，要互相提醒，我們都是領受聖靈的新人，要活出上帝兒女的樣式，讓上帝的榮耀由我們彰顯出來！
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