A man, &c.— That is, an angel deputed from God to give him the dimensions of the temple. See chap. Ezekiel 1:7 and Ezekiel 43:6. The Hebrew cubit was equal to about eighteen inches of our measure. The reader will best understand this description, by referring to Calmet's plan of it in his Dictionary of the Bible.
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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 reed; and he stood in the gate.