“... Each cherub extends two of its wings so the cherubim are touching wingtip to wingtip (1:8-11). With this hint of a familiar position, the hybrid creatures with wings outspread in the holy of holies have come to life in all their vivid monstrosity. But these aren’t the frozen statues of Narnia simply regaining life and movement. The “living creatures,” as Ezekiel keeps pointedly calling them, have burst into a new dimension, wildly beyond anything we could have imagined, let alone built. Hands and hooves and many faces, wheels alongside and fiery coals in their midst, the heavenly monsters radiate incomprehensible divine life that could never have been captured in mere statuary. With their two new wings they cover their bodies in the presence of the living God. ...”