It is a great relief to find Anaximander's wheels in Ezekiel. The bible at once becomes a book of the human race instead of being a corked up bottle of 'inspiration'. And so it is a relief to find the four Creatures of the four quarters of the heavens, winged and starry. Immediately we are out in the great Chaldean star spaces, instead of being pinched up in a Jewish tabernacle.
D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (1931), 36
For Anaximander's wheels, here, but it's not important
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