John Trapp on Zechariah 2:1

CHAP. II.

Verſe 1. I lift up mine eyes againe and looked] i. e. I looked wiſhly, not ſluggiſhly, as betwixt ſleeping and waking as chap. 4. I ſaw further by the ſpirit then common ſenſe could have carried me. I beheld Ieruſalem in her future glory, I looked intently, I took aime, not by the things which are ſeen, but by the things which are not ſeen 2 Cor. 4.18. Heb. 11.27. Gal. 4.26.

and behold a man.] The Man Chriſt Jeſus, as his Mother is called a Virgin Iſa. 7.14. the Virgin, that famous Virgin that conceived and bare a Son, that gat a man from the Lord Gen. 4.1. This Man (called before and after an Angel, as appearing in humane ſhape) is here ſeen and ſet forth as an Architect or Maſter-builder, going to take the plot of his Church (ſee Rev. 21.15. and obſerve by the way, how in that book the holy Ghoſt borrows the allegories and elegancies of the Old Teſtament, to ſet out the ſtory of the New, in ſucceeding ages.)