3.  Wouldest thou learn that to comprehend the nature of God is impossible?  The Three Children in the furnace of fire, as they hymn the praises of God, say Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the Cherubim Song of the Three Children, 32..  Tell me what is the nature of the Cherubim, and then look upon Him who sitteth upon them.  And yet Ezekiel the Prophet even made a description of them, as far as was possible, saying that every one has four faces, one of a man, another of a lion, another of an eagle, and another of a calf; and that each one had six wings In Ezekiel i. 6–11, the four living creatures have each four wings, as also in x. 21 according to the Hebrew.  But in the latter passage, according to the Vatican text of the Septuagint, each has eight wings, as Codd. R. and Casaub. read here.  Cyril seems to have confused the number in Ezekiel with that in Is. vi. 2:  each one had six wings.  By “a wheel of four sides” Cyril explains Ez. i. 16:  a wheel in the midst of a wheel, as meaning two circles set at right angles to each other, like the equator and meridian on a globe., and they had eyes on all sides; and that under each one was a wheel of four sides.  Nevertheless though the Prophet makes the explanation, we cannot yet understand it even as we read.  But if we cannot understand the throne, which he has described, how shall we be able to comprehend Him who sitteth thereon, the Invisible and Ineffable God?  To scrutinise then the nature of God is impossible:  but it is in our power to send up praises of His glory for His works that are seen.