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Ezekiel 1 places a humanlike figure on the throne above the living creatures. The Apocalypse of Abraham reshapes this throne vision by surrounding it with fire and recording a voice, while giving Abraham no visible figure of God to describe.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Ezekiel 1:26
Hebrew Bible
22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a dome41, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads. 23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering its body. 24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings—it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Sovereign One, or the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings. 25 Then there was a voice from above the platform over their heads when they stood still. 26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.
Apocalypse of Abraham 18:13
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
9 And it came to pass when the angel who was with me saw that they were threatening each other, he left me and went running to them 10 and turned the face of each living creature from the face immediately confronting him, in order that they might not see their faces threatening each other. 11 And he taught them the song of peace which has its origin [in the Eternal One]. 12 And as I stood alone and looked, I saw behind the living creatures a chariot with fiery wheels, each wheel full of eyes round about; 13 and over the wheels was a throne; which I saw, and this was covered with fire, and fire encircled it round about, and behold! an indescribable fire environed a fiery host.
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Notes and References
Rowland, Christopher
The Open Heaven: A Study of Apocalyptic in Judaism and Early Christianity
(pp. 102-103) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1982
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