Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
Set me upon my feet - having been previously prostrate and unable to rise until raised by the divine power.
Shut thyself within thine house - implying that, in the work he had to do, he must look for no sympathy from man, but must be often alone with God, and draw his strength from Him (Fairbairn). 'Do not go out of thy house until I reveal the future to thee by signs and words,' which God does in the following chapters down to the eleventh. Thus a representation was given of the city shut up by siege (Grotius). Thereby God proved the obedience of His servant, and Ezekiel showed the reality of his call, by proceeding, not through rash impulse, but by the directions of God (Calvin).