* 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
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