Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 9:4

4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the City, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Spake from the midst of that Glory. v. 3.

man clothed in linnen, i. e. to Christ.

Pass through as men use to go, who keep an even steddy pace.

The chief Street of the City:

'Tis too curious, and as useless to enquire what mark this was, it is groundless to confine it to the sign of the Cross, whatever some discourse of the antique form of the Letter Thau. It is sufficient, that after themanner of man's speaking, the Lord assures us his Remnant are safe, as what is under a Seal, which none can or dare break open,

As the Faithful Servants of God, in allusion perhaps to the custom in the East, that Servants wore their Masters name in their foreheads, or to let us know that now this deliverance wo[illegible: 1 letter]'d be not as in Egypt by whole Families, but by single and selected persons.

out of inward grief for other men's sins and sorrows.

Express their grief by vocal lamentations, who dare openly bewail the Abominations of this wicked City, and so bear their testimony against it.

Not as if these mourners knew every particular abomination, but they mourned for all the kinds of wickedness which they knew of.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] mark.; Exod. 12.[illegible: 1 letter]. Revel. 7.3.