Ezekiel 8:2

The appearance of fire. Ezekiel does not directly specify the being as human in form, but the mention of the loins and of “the form of a hand” (v. 3) implies that such was the case. The LXX reads “man” instead of “fire.” Ezekiel was given another theophany (see on ch. 1:1). The vision occurred while the elders were sitting before the prophet. They evidently saw nothing, but Ezekiel’s state of vision doubtless prepared them to listen at the close of his vision to “all the things that the Lord had shewed” the prophet (ch. 11:25).