Here Ezekiel relates a noteworthy event. For this was not a mere vision, but a real transaction, since some of the elders of Israel came to him for…

And the word of the Lord came to me
While the elders were sitting before him, and whispered secretly and powerfully …

No outward form or reformation can be acceptable to God, so long as any idol possesses the heart; yet how many prefer their own devices and their o…