John Calvin Commentary Ezekiel 10:22

"And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward." — Ezekiel 10:22 (ASV)

He continues with the same idea, that nothing was unclear or confusing in this vision, since all things were harmonious. For the memory of the vision he had received remained in the Prophet’s mind; but now when he is quickly taken into the temple, he recognizes the same God and the same forms to which he had been accustomed.

We see then how he counters their stubbornness, as they might otherwise have boasted that he had offered them only his own fabrications without any truth in them. Therefore, he curbs this insolence and shows that God had certainly appeared to him, and this for a second time. Since he now says that each living creature went forward in the direction of its face, there is no doubt that this refers to their actions.

Therefore, he points out that angels did not stray from their course, as a person usually does who looks this way and that, deserts the path, or turns to the right or the left. The Prophet therefore says that the living creatures moved so that each was focused on its own purpose or goal, because if the motion of the angels had been disorderly, they would not have been the servants of God.

Finally, the Prophet indicates that the angels were not only alert and prepared for obedience, but were also arranged and shaped according to a set rule, so that they did not in the slightest degree turn aside from the command and direction of God.