And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. They four had one likeness. In the wonderful variety of God's works there is the greatest harmony-
`All discord's harmony not understood; All partial evil universal good:'
at least all the complicated movements of Providence are in concert working God's will, and tending to God's glory as their end (see note, Ezekiel 1:16).
As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel - cutting one another at right angles, so as that the whole might move in any of the four directions or quarters of the world. God's doings, however involved they seem to us, cohere, so that lower causes subserve the higher.