The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Each of them six wings. See the like visions, Ezekiel 1:4, Isaiah 6:2. These signify their swiftness in executing God’s just commands.—Full of eyes: a symbol of knowledge and watchfulness.—They rested not day and night. There is no night in heaven; but hereby is signified, that they praised God without intermission for all eternity, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, our [2] God, and so forth Witham.—They repeat the word holy three times, probably in honour of the blessed trinity. And the four and twenty elders prostrate before the throne, in token of their acknowledging all their happiness and pre-eminence to be his gift. Walmesley.
Hodges/Farstad MT reads “holy” 9 times instead of 3.