* This is an ephah.
   "The meaning of this vision," says Archbishop Newcome, "seems
   to be, that the Babylonish captivity had happened on account
   of the wickedness of the Jews, and that a like dispersion
   would befall them if they relapsed into like crimes."  The
   woman who sat in the {ephah} was an emblem of the Jewish
   nation; the casting the weight of lead on the mouth of the
   {ephah} seems to mean the condemnation of the Jews, after they
   had filled up the measure of their iniquities by crucifying
   the Messiah; the "two women, with wings like a stork, and the
   wind in their wings," seem emblematical of the Roman armies
   and the rapidity of their conquests; and their lifting up the
   {ephah} and carrying it through the air, to build it a house
   in Shinar or Babylon, where it was fixed on its own basis,
   represents the taking of Jerusalem, the dispersion of the
   Jews, and the long continuance of that calamity, as a just
   punishment of their unbelief.

  Eze 44:10,11  Am 8:5