Ezekiel — Chapter 10
Chapter 10 reprises the chariot vision of chapter 1, adding the detail that the wheels are now identified with the cherubim ('et haec erat visio quam videram juxta fluvium Chobar' — v. 15). Lapide notes this repetition is pedagogical: God repeats the vision to imprint it more deeply, as Pharaoh's two dreams had one meaning (Gen. 41:32). The departure of the divine glory from the Temple begins here.
Verse 2
God commands the man in linen to take coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city: Lapide reads the coals as the divine judgments, which proceed from the very presence of God (between the cherubim, i.e., from the Holy of Holies). He connects to the Pentecost tongues of fire (Acts 2) as the redemptive counterpart.
Verse 4
The glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud: Lapide reads the cloud filling the Temple as a type of the Shekinah's final departure before the Babylonian destruction — but also of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit (cloud, wind, fire) filled the upper room and consecrated the Church as the new Temple.
Verse 14
The four faces of the cherubim here differ slightly from chapter 1 (the ox-face replaced by the cherub-face): Lapide harmonizes by explaining that the cherub-face is the ox-face seen in its proper angelic dignity, and uses Theodoret's commentary to reconcile the apparent discrepancy.
Verse 18
The glory of the Lord departs from the Temple threshold: Lapide calls this one of the most solemn moments in the entire Old Testament — the Shekinah withdrawing from Israel, anticipating the destruction of Jerusalem. He typologically connects it to Christ's departure from the Temple (Mt. 23:38: 'Ecce relinquetur vobis domus vestra deserta') and the transfer of the divine presence to the Church.