Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 25:20

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

Towards God, who is supposed to sit there, whose face the Angels in Heaven always behold, and upon whom their eyes are fixed to observe and receive his commands; and towards Christ, the true propitiatory, which mystery they desire to look into, 1 Pet. 1. 12. not envying mankind their near and happy relation to him, but taking pleasure in the contemplation of it.

Marginal references: 1 King. 8. 7. 1 Chro. 28. 18. Heb. 9. 5.