And they who look upon the faces of the cherubim then, though they have seen the face of the ivory Minerva, will be ready to kiss the hand of the Jew from love of his genius, asleep through all the thousands of years.
Between the dreadful cherubim A Father's face I still discern, As Moses looked of old on Him, And saw His glory into goodness turn!
Not mine to look where cherubim And seraphs may not see, But nothing can be good in Him Which evil is in me.
And the cherubim stand, and let down their wings in submission, waiting for the voice of One mightier than they.
In the first place, Ezekiel's cherubim are far more wonderful and complicated than those which he would see on the walls of the Assyrian buildings.
Cherubim and seraphim, angels and archangels, dominions and powers, whether of nature or of grace--these all serve Him and do His work.
Next (and this is most important), these different cherubim were not independent of each other, each going his own way, and doing his own will.
Ezekiel did not say that the cherubim were evil, or meaningless; or that the belief in angels ministering to man was false.
Angels and Archangels are in jubilation, Powers exult, Principalities and Dominations, Virtues and Thrones are in gladness: Cherubim and Seraphim magnify God.
You say, thou shalt not make to thyself any graven thing nor any likeness, and you yourself fashion cherubim of woven work, and two cherubim of pure gold.
The cherubim are not outside of creation; why, then, does He allow cherubim carved by the hand of man to overshadow the mercy-seat?
And the likeness of the cherubim are the work of man's hand, and the tabernacle itself from first to last was an image.
There Powers protect thee, Principalities praise thee, Thrones proclaim thee, Cherubim are hushed in joy, and Seraphim magnify the true Mother by nature and by grace of their very Lord.
I never said thou shalt not make the image of cherubim in adoration before the propitiatory.
Were not the cherubim the images of angels made by hands?
Now just as the Jew adored the ark of the covenant, and the two carved cherubim of gold, and the two tablets of Moses, although there is nowhere an order from God to worship or revere them, so is it with Christians.
Listen to God's command to Moses that he should make two cherubim wrought in metal to overshadow the propitiatory.
As to the first of these, the human element in the cherubim is at once intelligible.
The whole conception of the cherubim has thus been modified and shaped in the minds of men under a form altogether different from that in which it is really presented to us in Scripture.
In the midst of the cherubim spoken of in these verses we are thus in the midst of Temple figures and of priestly thoughts.
Therefore God chose the Cherubim that were ten spans above the earth as the place where the Shekinah betook itself to commune with Moses.
On the Ark were the Cherubim with their faces of boys and their wings.
The Sphinx was the solemn sentinel, placed to watch the temple and the tomb, as the Cherubim watched the gates of Paradise after the expulsion of Adam.
In theCherubim were joined portions of the figure of a man with those of the lion, the ox, and the eagle.
It has been supposed that the figure of the Cherubim among the Jews was derived from that of the Sphinx.
In the Temple the Cherubim spread their wings above the ark; and Wilkinson gives a picture from the Egyptian tombs of two kneeling figures with wings spread above the scarabæus.
Then did the cherubimlift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another.
In the most holy house he made two cherubimof image work; and they overlaid them with gold.
For the cherubimspread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the poles of it above.
When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn't turn from beside them.
The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.
The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
Resting upon the Ark was the Mercy Seat, surmounted by a pair ofcherubim made {5} of beaten gold.
The cherubim that stood as the symbol of guardianship {38} over the Oracle were of olive wood, covered with gold, the precious metal being fitted upon the carved work.
Are not cherubim and serpents the likenesses of creatures in heaven above, in the earth beneath and in the waters under the earth?
He commands two cherubim of beaten gold to be made and placed on each side of the oracle; and in Numbers (xxi.
Solomon decorated the temple of God with images of cherubim and other representations.
Like the two cherubim who guarded the tree of life, they guarded the gate of heaven.
But more often the painted or sculptured figures were, as at Jerusalem, those of cherubim and the sacred tree or other vegetable devices.
The sphinx, in fact, performed precisely the same office as the winged bulls that guarded the entrance to an Assyrian palace, or the cherubim who stood at the gates of the garden of Eden.
The winged bulls and the cherubim were composite creatures, and came originally from Babylonia.
It needs no tongue ofCherubim To unfold its sense.
He caused the cherubim to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden," i.
Groups of Angels' heads and numberless Cherubim sitting upon clouds are interlaced with a large crown; the whole being about ten mètres in length.
God ordered the Cherubim who kept the gate of Eden, to carry to Adam two figs from the tree under which our first parents had concealed themselves after the Fall.
I belong to the Cherubim who praise God night and day, and I have slipped out of their ranks without being observed, that I might take a glimpse of the Paradise, God has prepared for the saints.
I will place thee in the highest heaven beneath the Cherubim and Seraphim who bear up My eternal throne.
And the Lord of Hosts went up, and the great winds before Him, and the Cherubim flying upon the winds, and the angels of heaven round about Him.
But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demi-gods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
I give an instance of each: Here do seraphim Burn with immortal love; there cherubim With other noble people of the light, As eaglets in the sun, delight their sight.
Gilding, too, appears to have been extensively used in decoration, and some of the great sphinxes may have been overlaid with gold, like the cherubim in Solomon's temple.
The doors were also carved withcherubim and palm trees, and open flowers; and thus, with the other parts of the building, corresponded with those of the Assyrian palaces.
The cherubim have been described by Biblical commentators as mythic figures, uniting the human head with the body of a lion, or an ox, and the wings of an eagle.
Now the order of the Cherubim is under the order of the Seraphim, as Dionysius says (Coel.
Consequently Cherubim is derived from knowledge; which is compatible with mortal sin; but Seraphim is derived from the heat of charity, which is incompatible with mortal sin.
The wrathful cherubim of the lost Eden had driven man from a treasure which he had forfeited; but these, though they guard the ten words of a law which man had broken, were cherubim of mercy and reconciliation.
He determined, therefore, to furnish the Ten Tribes with high places, and temples of high places, and objects of worship which might rival the golden cherubim of Zion, and be honoured with festal music and royal pomp.
The cherubim of the sanctuary had to be made of the gold of Uphaz, the finest and purest gold.
But to show that God has not abandoned His disobedient children, but would still enable them to keep that law, and to repent for its transgression, the cherubim are there.
But over that Ark, and its saddening because dishallowed treasure, bent once more these mystic figures, these "cherubim of glory.
One of the Scriptural functions of the cherubim was to guard treasure (Ezek.
That the cherubim over the Ark were not identical with the fourfold-visaged four of Ezekiel's cherub-chariot we know, because they certainly had but one face.
Is it true, that after the Lord God drove them from the garden that he placed upon its Eastern side "Cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life?
The sacred historian failed also to tell us when the cherubim and the flaming sword were made, and said nothing about two of the persons composing the Trinity.
Are the Cherubim and the flaming sword guarding that tree still, or was it destroyed, or did its rotting trunk, as the Rev.
Here in this hall where cherubimshine out, Where the night silence---- Michal.
The walls and pillars of cedar are richly carven--with serpents, pomegranates, and cherubim in gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cherubim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: angel; cherub; martyr; principality; saint; seraphim
