And the living creatures ran back and forth like the appearance of a flash of lightning.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Flashes. Hebrew Bazak. (Haydock)
Theodotion retains the original. His version seems to have been inserted in the Septuagint, (Calmet) who omitted this verse, as seeming to contradict ver. 9., and 12. (St. Jerome)
Yet it only signifies that the motion was quick as lightning, though they did not alter their situation with respect to each other.