Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 9:6

6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon which is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary: then they began with the ancient men which were before the house.

My purpose is to exterminate and make desolate, therefore slay all that are design'd to destruction;

whose venerable age if innocent, might have awed you, whose wisdom might preserve some and themselves,

who shou'd be a seed-plot, or nursery for posterity, cut them off too,

regard no State or Sex, neither the loveliness of the Virgin, nor the prettiness of the Infant, nor the comeliness, and gravity of the Matron, spare none;

yet in your fervours of revenge look you come not near to any sealed forehead; you may see them, though they blush for their own sins, and for the sins of others, yet they look up to me and wait for me in the way of my Judgments, they will lift up their heads, and look you in the faces;

both the execution, and the distinction at the Sanctuary, there are the great Sinners, and the abominable sins which have brought this on them, and that all Israel may know, nothing but Repentance can secure them.

The Seventy, or Sanhedrin, ch. 8.10, 11.

Who were Governours in the Temple, and House of God by Office, but Idolaters by Practice and Principles.

Marginal references: to destruction.