The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 9:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Begin at my sanctuary, etc. It was fitting that the spot in which guilt had culminated should be the starting point of punishment. There seems something like a reference to this command in 1 Peter 4:17.

In each ease judgment "begins at the house of God." So the dread work began with the ancient men, or elders, of the same class, i.e; if not the same persons, as those in Ezekiel 8:11.

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