The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:2
The glory of the God of Israel. The visionary glory that dazzled the eyes of the rapt seer is but an earthly suggestion of that ineffable glory in which the unseen God is ever clothed. We may take the manifestation of glory as a type and suggestion of that higher wonder. I. IN WHAT THE GLORY OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL CONSISTS . 1. The radiance of heavenly light . The glory is like the effulgence of sunlight, the raying forth of beams of splendor from the... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:2
Scarcely had the prophet taken up his station at or near the gate when the glory of the God of Israel (see on Ezekiel 1:28 ; Ezekiel 3:23 ) came from the way of the east , as if intending to enter the temple by the very door through which it had previously departed from the temple (comp. Ezekiel, Ezekiel 10:19 ; Ezekiel 11:22 , Ezekiel 11:23 ). The voles which proceeded from the theophany and resembled the noise of many waters , is after the LXX . ( καὶ φωνὴ τῆς... read more