Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

and He saith unto me, 'Son of man, dig, I pray thee, through the wall;' and I dig through the wall, and lo, an opening.

Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dig in the wall, behold a door.

And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.

And he said to me: "Son of man, dig in the wall." And when I had dug in the wall, there appeared one door.

Et dixit ad me, Fill hominis, fode agedum parietem: et fodi in pariete, et ecce porta una.

Then said he unto me, son of man, dig now in the wall,.... And so make the hole larger; that he might have a fuller view of what was to be seen within the wall:
and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door; an opening, by which he could go into the cell or chamber, and take a full view of what was to be seen there. All this was visionary, for in reality the prophet did not dig, nor could he, not having anything to dig with; but so things appeared to his mind in the vision: first a little hole, by which he could discern there was a room; then, by making use of some means, a large door appeared, at which there was an entrance into it.

dig--for it had been blocked up during Josiah's reformation. Or rather, the vision is not of an actual scene, but an ideal pictorial representation of the Egyptian idolatries into which the covenant-people had relapsed, practising them in secret places where they shrank from the light of day [FAIRBAIRN], (John 3:20). But compare, as to the literal introduction of idolatries into the temple, Ezekiel 5:11; Jeremiah 7:30; Jeremiah 32:34.

A door - A private door, by which the priests entered into the chamber of their imagery, to perform idolatrous worship to their images.