A commentary upon the prophet Ezekiel . ChapterVIII. CHAP. VIII. The Argument. The Trophet is carried in Vifion to Jerufalem, andthere Jhewed the Idolatries committed by theJews within the Trecintls of the Temple. Ver. i. Ver. NT) it came to fafs in the fixthTear.] of Jehoiakin*s Captivi-ty. See Chapter i. 2. Ibid. eAnd the Elders of jf#-dah.~\ Men of Note for theirAge or Authority, perhaps fuch as had been Mem-bers of the Greater or Letter Confiftories beforetheir Captivity. Thefe Elders came to me to in-quire of the Lord concerning their preient State ofAffairs: Compare Chapter xiv. 1,4.


A commentary upon the prophet Ezekiel . ChapterVIII. CHAP. VIII. The Argument. The Trophet is carried in Vifion to Jerufalem, andthere Jhewed the Idolatries committed by theJews within the Trecintls of the Temple. Ver. i. Ver. NT) it came to fafs in the fixthTear.] of Jehoiakin*s Captivi-ty. See Chapter i. 2. Ibid. eAnd the Elders of jf#-dah.~\ Men of Note for theirAge or Authority, perhaps fuch as had been Mem-bers of the Greater or Letter Confiftories beforetheir Captivity. Thefe Elders came to me to in-quire of the Lord concerning their preient State ofAffairs: Compare Chapter xiv. 1,4. xxxiii. ji. Itis probable that they together with the Priefts ofthe Captivity often met together to confult aboutthe Publick Affairs, or to make Orders and Rulesfor the better Government of the People. So whenSharezer and Regemmekch came to Jerufalem to ask upon EZEKTEL. 57 ask Counfel of the Prophets and Priefts about obfer- Chapterving the Fafts relating to their former Calamities, vii. 2, 3. it is highly probable that they were L/~V*NJfent by the Elders and Priefts that met in ^Babylonfor this purpofe. See Dr. Trideaux Connex, of , Part i. p. 272. Ibid. Sat before me.~] This was the Pofture ofthofe


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