I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Ver. 1. I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked] i.e. I looked wistfully, not sluggishly, as between sleeping and waking, as Zechariah 4:1. I saw further by the spirit than common sense could have carried me. I beheld Jerusalem in her future glory, I looked intently, I took aim, not by the things which are seen, but by the things which are not seen, 2Co 4:18 Hebrews 11:27 Galatians 4:26 .
And behold a man] The man Christ Jesus, as his mother is called a virgin, Isaiah 7:14, the virgin, that famous virgin that conceived and bare a son, that got a man from the Lord, Genesis 4:1. This man (called before and after an angel, as appearing in human shape) is here seen and set forth as an architect or master builder, going to take the plot of his Church, see Revelation 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.