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Chapter 9: Next Ezekiel heard a loud voice in the vision crying
out to six angels in human form, and a man clothed in linen with
them. They came from the north, the direction from which invasion
was to come. They went in and stood beside the bronze altar. The
majesty of the Lord spoke, and ordered a man clothed in linen to
go through Jerusalem, and write a tau, a sort of cross, on the
foreheads of those who sigh over the abominations Ezekiel saw in
the temple.

Then the Majesty of God ordered those with the man clothed in
linen, like the priests, to smite all those on whom the tau was
not marked. The Fathers of the Church liked to see the tau as a
prefiguration of the baptismal seal. They were to smite all, even
little children. They were to begin at the sanctuary and thus
defile the temple-- a horrendous thought for an Israelite. This
all stood for the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar. God told Ezekiel
that He had forsaken the city and would not spare.

The man in linen came back and reported all had been done.