Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
The spirit ... brought me in a vision - not in actual fact, but in ecstatic vision. He had been as to the outward world all the time before the elders (Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 8:3) in Chaldea: he now reports what he had witnessed with the inner eye.