Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 40:6

6 ¶ Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the East , and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the treshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

When the Prophet had well observed the outer wall, and the measuring thereof.

The man with the measuring reed, i. e. Christ.

Either of one of the inner walls, or of the Temple it self.

Till he was got up, he could not measure the threshold, which was laid at the top of the stairs, and these were ten, if the Measurer be supposed in the gate of the house, or eight if in the gate of the Court of the Priests, or seven if in the Court of Israel, and each stair half a cubit in height, too high at lowest for him to take the measure of the threshold, if he did not go up the stairs.

It is like he measured the lower threshold first, as next hand.

i. e. The upper threshold, or lintel of the gate, which was of equal dimensions with the lower, a reed broad, or three yards and three inches broad, o[illegible: 1 letter] thick.

Marginal references: Heb. whose face was the way towards the East.