And — As soon as the command was given, the ministers of God's displeasure appear. Men — In appearance and vision they were men, and the prophet calls them as he saw them. The north — Insinuating whence their destruction should come. One man — Not a companion, but as one of authority over them. With linen — A garment proper to the priesthood. They — All the seven.
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Ezekiel 9:2
2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lietha toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.