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They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:
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Verse 8. Wings. Their arms were covered with feathers, and the hand appeared at the extremity; or they had four arms under the wings. Calmet. 10:8. They all came from the shoulders, so as to correspond with the four faced animal, verse 6. Calmet.—Others believe that each face had four wings, so that the animal would have sixteen. Maldonat.—In Isaiah 9:2 the cherub has six wings. The form was variable, as there was nothing in nature similar. They were perhaps designed to represent the eternity and dominion of God over the whole creation. verse 28. Bible.
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