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Over forty church fathers are cited in the commentary on Ezekiel, some of whom are here translated into English for the first time, but pride of place goes to four significant extant works: the homilies of Origen and Gregory the Great, and the commentaries of Jerome and Theodoret of Cyr, thus bridging East and West, North and South. A similar array of fathers are found within the commentary on...

And yet alongside this caution there also existed considerable enthusiasm. The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach refers explicitly to Ezekiel’s vision of God (Sir 49:8). The heavenly chariot became an important inspiration for the merkabah (“chariot”) mysticism of later Jewish piety, in which the chariot began to figure as a symbol in the instructions given to the devout in order to achieve heavenly visions; this explains why the chariot appears in various apocalypses (Dan 7–8, the Apocalypse of Abraham
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