Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Everything was now ready for His reception. As the Shechinah-glory was the special distinction of the old temple, so it was to be in the new, in a degree as much more transcendent as the proportions of the new exceeded those of the old. The fact that the Shechinah-glory was not in the second temple proves that cannot be that temple which is meant in the prophecy.