What are the Seraphim? What do they look like?
A. The Seraphim have six wings, which might indicate a higher rank or that they have achieved immortality. Their form appears to be somewhat human in that they have faces, hands and feet in addition to their wings. They are represented as standing above the King as he sat upon his throne, ready to minister to him. (Isa.6:2 – Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. — RSV) Q13. What are the Cherubim? What do some of them look like? A. Ezekiel describes them as having four faces one that looks forward, one backward and one on each side. The faces are like a bull, man, lion, and eagle. They have four wings and hands under their wings. They are described as having eyes on their body, back, hands, wings, and wheels (Isa.10:12,21: And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, [were] full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had. Every one
