slaying them, I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah, Lord God! wilt Thou destroy all the residue of Israel in Thy pouring out of Thy fury upon Jerusalem?"
Now, it is in answer to this inquiry of the prophet that we have the vision of the coals of fire, and of the cherubim The visions recorded in the first and tenth chapters of Ezekiel's prophecy are the same. The prophet says: "Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about, as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain. And he spake to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." Now, this may symbolize the destruction of the city, as some interpreters claim, but the man clothed with linen had nothing to do with the destruction of the city, and we think
