Ezekiel 9:4

The Lord said, spake from the midst of that glory, Ezekiel 9:3. Unto him, the man clothed in linen, i.e. to Christ. Go through; pass through as men use to go who keep an even, steady pace. The midst of the city; the chief street of the city. Set a mark: it is too curious, and as useless, to inquire what mark this was. It is groundless to confine it to the sign of the cross, whatever some discourse of the antique form of the letter Thau. It is sufficient that, after the manner of man's speaking, the Lord assures us his remnant are safe, as what is under a seal, which none can or dare break open. Upon the foreheads, as the faithful servants of God, in allusion perhaps to the custom in the East, that servants wore their master's name in their foreheads, or to let us know that now this deliverance would be not as in Egypt by whole families, but by single and selected persons. That sigh, out of inward grief for other men's sins and sorrows. That cry; express their grief by vocal lamentations, who dare openly bewail the abominations of this wicked city, and so bear their testimony against it. For all the abominations; not as if these mourners knew every particular abomination, but they mourned for all the kinds of wickedness which they knew of.