When those went, [these] went; and when those stood, [these] stood,.... When ministers are active and lively, then the churches are; but when they are indolent, dull, and inactive, then the churches are so likewise:
and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them; Ezekiel 1:19;
for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels; or, "the spirit of life", as in Ezekiel 1:20; see Revelation 11:11.