Ezekiel 1:27 - Exposition

As the colour of amber. The "amber" ( see note on Ezekiel 1:4 ) represents the purity and glory of the Divine nature—the truth that " God is light" in his eternal essence. The "fire" which, here as ever, represents the wrath of God against evil, is round about within it, i.e. is less absolutely identified with the Divine will, of which it is yet an almost constant manifestation. It is, in the language of the older logicians, an inseparable accident rather than part of its essential nature.