Son of man, write thee the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
Ver. 2. This same day.] Ezekiel in Mesopotamia is told by God, and telleth others the very day that Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. 2Ki 25:1 Jeremiah 39:1 ; Jer 52:4 Heathen historians all us of Apollonius Tyanaeus, that in the self-same day and hour wherein Domitian the emperor was slain at Rome, he got up into a high place at Ephesus in Asia, and calling together a great multitude of men, he spake these words, Kαλως Sτεφανε, ειγε Sτεφανε - Well done, Stephen, strike the murderer home, pay him soundly; thou hast struck him, thou hast wounded him to the heart, thou hast slain him outright; a I commend thee for it. This, if it were so, was brought to him by the devil doubtless. Our prophet had a better intelligencer.
a παιε τον μιαιφονον, επλεξας, ετρωσας, απεκτεινας. - Dio Domit.