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;
Ver. 3. And the glory of the God of Israel,] i.e., The Son of God appearing upon the glorious chariot, Ezekiel 1:3 ; Eze 3:23 and being "the brightness of his Father's glory, the express image of his person." Heb 1:3
Was gone up from the cherub,] i.e., From those four cherubims upon which the glory of the Lord did then appear to the prophet. Eze 8:4 He was gone from his ark, to show that the refractory Jews were now discovenanted; and from his mercy seat, to show that he would show them no more mercy. Many moves God makes in this and the two following Chapter s to show his loathness utterly to move; and still, as he goeth out, some judgment cometh in. Here he removeth from the cherubims in the oracle to the threshold; and upon that removal see what followeth; Eze 9:3-7 so for the rest see Ezekiel 10:1,2; Ezekiel 10:4; Ezekiel 10:18,19; Ezekiel 11:8,10; Ezekiel 11:22,23; and when God was quite gone from the city, then followed the fatal calamity in the ruin thereof. But that he went away by degrees, and not soon and at once, was an argument of his very great love and longsuffering. He left them step by step, as it were, and pled loath to depart; but that there was no remedy. Tied he is not to any place, as these fond Jews thought he was to their visible temple, which now he is about therefore to abandon, and to make their very sanctuary a slaughterhouse.