Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 25:18

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold: of beaten work shalt thou make them in the two ends of the mercy-seat.

Figures of humane shape, in which alone the Angels used to appear: But they had wings to signifie their expedition in Gods work and messages. And between these Angels God is said to sit and dwell. So this place was a representation of Heaven, where God sitteth and dwelleth among the Cherubims and other glorious Angels.

Not made of several parcels joyned together, as images commonly are, nor yet melted and cast in a frame of mould, but beaten by the hammer out of one continued piece of Gold, possibly to note the exact unity or indivisibility and the simplicity of the Angelical Nature.