Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 40:3

3 And he brought me thither , and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring re[illegible: 1 letter]d: and he stood in the gate .

The Lord by his spirit, as ver. 1. let. h.

Ver. 1. let. i·

The same no doubt, which appeared to the Prophet, chap. 1.26. let. b. whose name is the branch, and who builds the Temple, Zech. 6.12, 13.

Whose fashion and colour was like burnished brass, So Revel. 1.15. much like to that chap. 1. ver. 27 let. c. and speaks glory and strength.

A plumb-line, a Masons line to discover the rectitude of the building or its defects.

Not the East-gate, but in the North-gate next toward the East.

Marginal references: Rev. 11.[illegible: 2 letters] and 21.15.