...and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel, and under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in His clearness.7 Here the sapphire is a symbol representing the throne of God. The symbol is used similarly...

...us, that we may hear it" This is the prologue that precedes the drama we have already glanced at. " And they saw the God of Israel, and there was under...feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, as it were the body of heaven in its clearness." * Blue stone, chiefly the lapis-lazuli, was in Egypt...

...Mount Sinai: Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity. (Ex. 24:9-10) This sea may also symbolize...

...states, "Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [to Sinai], and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire . . . [and] they beheld God." For Jewish believers, then, the thought may come...

...What is the "SEA of GLASS"? Astronomically it is the starry heaven. "And they saw the God of lsrael, and there was under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone (celestial blue); and as it were the body of HEAVEN in His clearness" (Ex. 24:10). Historically in...

...white fire, and it was engraved because the Jubilee proclaims freedom to all worlds. (pp.3 39-40) "And under His feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone" - what was this which they saw? They beheld the precious stone with which the Holy One will build the...