Verse 7
7. Defile the house Beginning in the priests’ court, where they stood to receive this command (see note Ezekiel 9:3), they began to slay all who had not the mark of the cross on their foreheads. and continued from court to court until they had passed out of the temple and then continued their work in the streets of the city. The temple, which had ceased to be Jehovah’s, was now defiled by heaps of corpses (Ezekiel 6:5; Ezekiel 6:13; Ezekiel 43:7; Numbers 19:11, etc.). This massacre in the temple, which is here seen only in vision, actually took place in the capture of the city by the Chaldeans.
Go It matters not whether these six executioners represented the Assyrians or the doubled power of famine, pestilence, and war (Ezekiel 5:12). In either case the presence of a seventh is to be noted. The forces of the heathen and the powers of nature may burn and destroy, but behind these there is supreme Intelligence and Will. Schopenhauer was not altogether wrong when he called gravitation an act of will. Behind all destructive as well as creative and protective providences God standeth in the shadow.
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