Ezekiel 10:9

And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

Behold, the four wheels - (note, Ezekiel 1:15). The things which, from to the end of the chapter, are repeated from Ezekiel 1:1 are expressed more decidedly, now that he gets nearer view: the words "as it were," and "as if," so often occurring in Ezekiel 1:1, are therefore mostly omitted. The "wheels" express the manifold changes and revolutions in the world; also that in the chariot of His providence God transports the Church from one place to another, and everywhere can preserve it-a truth calculated to alarm the people in Jerusalem, and to console the exiles (Polanus).