Seventy men - Compare (Exodus 24:9–10). The vision may have pointed to the contrast between the times. The number “seven” is sym…

Seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel. —There may have been no enclosed chamber around the courts of the temple capab…

Now the Prophet is brought to another place, where another kind of abomination is shown. If an idol had been erected in some recess of the…

And there stood before them Before the pictures, as the Vulgate Latin version expresses it, praying, sacrificing, and off…

A secret place was, so to speak, opened, where the prophet saw creatures painted on the walls, and a number of the elders of Israel worshipped befo…