Ezekiel 1:15

beheld the living creatures lit. and I saw the living creatures and behold. LXX. reads, and I saw and beholdprecisely as ch. Ezekiel 8:2; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 10:9.

by the living creatures beside, as R.V.

with his four faces lit. according to, or, at his four faces. LXX. reads, to these four, as Ezekiel 1:10, which is simpler. In the present text the "four faces" must be those of each one of the living creatures. The general sense appears to be that for each face of the individual living creature there was a wheel. The appearance would be so if the wheel really seemed two wheels cutting one another transversely. The position of the living creature was above the wheel, though the rim of the wheel might be higher than his feet (Ezekiel 10:2).