Living Creatures (Bible)
The living creatures or living beings (Hebrew חַיּוֹת khayyot) are a class of heavenly being described in Ezekiel's vision of the heavenly chariot in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. References to the creatures reoccur in texts of Second Temple Judaism, in rabbinical merkabah ("chariot") literature, and in the Book of Revelation 4:6. In later sources the creatures are equated as angels. In Christianity the four creatures, sometimes combined into a tetramorph following Ezekiel, were taken to represent the Four Evangelists.
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