Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Ver. 15. Behold one wheel upon the earth.] Things here below are exceedingly mutable, and therefore compared to wheels, because they may seem to run on wheels, and to have no certain course, but to be turned upside down eftsoons; such is the various, promiscuous administration of them, to many men's thinking. To set us right herein, here we have the vision of the four wheels; for each of the four living wights had a wheel by him, Ezekiel 1:16 ; Eze 10:9 to show that God governeth all the four quarters of the world by the ministry of his angels. This the poets hammered at, but hit not on, in their foolish fable of Fortune's wheel. St James speaketh of the wheel (τροχος) of nature; Jam 3:6 and, indeed, this world is of a wheeling nature, movable and mutable. But God, who moves this wheel, who ruleth the world, is unchangeable and eternal, Jam 1:17 and his providence and the ministry of his angels sets all the wheels in the world in motion.