Ezekiel 8:6 - Exposition

That I should go far off, etc. The lesson taught was that already implied in the fact that the glorious vision and come to him from the north ( Ezekiel 1:4 ). The temple was already as a God-deserted shrine. His return to it now was but the coming of the Judge and the Destroyer. We are reminded of the ΄εταβαίνωμεν ἔντευθεν , ("Let us depart hence"), which was heard in the darkness of the night before the later destruction of Jerusalem (Josephus, 'Bell. Jud.' 6.5.3) Bad begins, but worse remains behind. The prophet is led onward as through the successive stages of an inferno of idolatries.