There is somewhat most solemnly affecting in what is here said of the glory of the God of Israel, being gone up. Probably, the expression is in allusion to the withdrawing of the Shechinah, that is, the manifestation of the divine presence, from the mercy seat and, intimating perhaps, that when the Lord retires, judgment follows. Oh! how ought every truly awakened soul, to cry out with David; Lord! take not thine Holy Spirit from me! Psalms 51:11. Reader! observe what is here said of the call to the man clothed with linen, and the commission given to him. Yes! it is a grand point in the gospel, and the great warrant to faith, that God sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 1 John 4:14. And here again, as in the former verse, of the writer's ink-horn, the linen garment is a further testimony of the Saviour. The High Priest, who was a type of Christ, was so clothed. Leviticus 6:10; Revelation 19:13-14. It is well worthy our observation, how the Lord notifies his care over his people, and to show who they are. The sighs and sorrows for sin, are the true tokens of a broken and contrite heart. Therefore, doth any wish to know whether he is marked? The answer is direct! Do you sigh, and cry, for all the abominations that are done in the midst of the land? Are you humbled before God for sin, and seeking justification alone, by the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ? Where these effects are found, there is the sure mark of Jesus. John 16:8-11; Acts 5:31.
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Ezekiel 9:3-4
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a markb upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.