. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . presented on thecurtains and veil of the Tabernacle (Ex. , 81, xxxvi. 8, 35), on the walls and doorsand veil of the Temple (1 K. vi. 29, 32, 35 ; 2dir. iii. 14, &c), and on the bases of thelavers (1 K. vii. 29, 36). Ezekiel (i. 4-14)speaks of four living creatures, and similar-ly the apocalyptic beasts (Beast 14) ( 6) are four. The cherubim are sometimesplaced beneath the actual presence of Jehovah,whose moving throne they appear to draw ( 5, 25, 26, x. 1, 2, 6, 7). The glory symboliz-ing that presence which eye cannot sec restsor r
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . presented on thecurtains and veil of the Tabernacle (Ex. , 81, xxxvi. 8, 35), on the walls and doorsand veil of the Temple (1 K. vi. 29, 32, 35 ; 2dir. iii. 14, &c), and on the bases of thelavers (1 K. vii. 29, 36). Ezekiel (i. 4-14)speaks of four living creatures, and similar-ly the apocalyptic beasts (Beast 14) ( 6) are four. The cherubim are sometimesplaced beneath the actual presence of Jehovah,whose moving throne they appear to draw ( 5, 25, 26, x. 1, 2, 6, 7). The glory symboliz-ing that presence which eye cannot sec restsor rides on them, or one of them, thence dis-mounts to the Temple threshold, and then de-parts and mounts again (Ez. x. 4, 18; compareix. 3 ; Ps. xviii. 10). Those on the ark were tolie placed with wings stretched forth, one at each endof the mercy-seat, and to be made of the are called the cherubim of glory (Heb. ix. 5), ason or between them the glory, when visible, rested:They were anointed with the holy oil, like the ark. The winged female sphinx of Egypt—( Wilkinson.) itself, and the other sacred furniture. Their wingswere to be stretched upward, and their faces tow-ard each other and toward the mercy-seat. It isremarkable that with such precise directions as totheir position, attitude, and material, nothing, savethai they were winged, is said (in Exodus) concern-ing their shape. In Ez. i. (compare x.) they areminutely described as having a composite creature-form, of which the man, lion, ox, md eagle were theelements. In Ez. x. 14 their first face is said tobe the face of a cherub (compare i. 10). Biihr isinclined to think that the precise form varied withincertnin limits ; e. g. the cherubic figure might haveone, two, or four faces, two or four feet, one or twopair of wings, and might have the bovine or leoninetype as its basis, &c. Mr. F. W. Farrar (in Kit.)maintains, that, although the complete symbol of
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