Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither [was their] spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.
Ver. 20. Whithersoever the spirit was to go.] See Ezekiel 1:12; and take notice that whatever the instrument is, or means of this or that occurrence, God is the main agent. It is Christ who by his Spirit, Spiritus vitalis, worketh all in all in his Church. 1Co 12:16 Eph 1:11 Col 3:21 There falleth not a hair from a man's head, nay, not a bristle from a sow's back, saith Tertullian, without God.
For the spirit of the living creatures.] Or, Of life. The Divine inspiration was the procreant cause of the wheels' motion. This is here called haruach, that spirit by an excellence: est Deus in nobis. The spirit is in the wheels, as an invisible but irresistible agent. "The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord, he turneth it whithersoever he will." Pro 21:1