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In the visions: by this it appears it was not a corporeal transumption of the prophet: see Eze_8:3.
Brought me: see Eze_40:1.
Into the land of Israel; the land of Canaan was in a scheme represented to him.
Set me upon a very high mountain; placed him in the most convenient situation for prospect. It were vain to inquire what mountain this was, since this is a vision; probably it was Mount Moriah here signified.
Was the frame, the portrait and model,
of a city; a goodly, fair city, or, by way of eminence,
the city, or of that city which fourteen years ago was burnt.
On the south; on the south of the mountain where the prophet was set, and this was the situation of Jerusalem, on whose north was Mount Zion, Psa_48:2.