Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the (g) mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the (h) elders who [were] before the house.
(g) Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserves his small number, which he marks as in (Exodus 12:12; Revelation 7:3) but the chief mark is the spirit of adoption, with which the heart is sealed up to life everlasting.
(h) Which was the chief opportunity for all these evils, as in (Ezekiel 8:11).