It was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. He came. Hebrew “I came to destroy (Septuagint to anoint) the city,” marking such as should be spared. Calmet. 9. The glorious chariot entered by the eastern gate, and the prophet followed to the court of the priests., verse 5. 13. Calmet.—The Jews says the second temple was deprived of the Shekinah, or glory of the Lord. Yet it seems here to enter; and Christ himself adorned this second house, more than the first, by his adorable presence. Agg. 2:8. Bible.