SHewed me Joshua] In a vision. The end whereof is to shew, that in the restauration of the Temple, and of the service of God, it was first of all necessary to have those persons, which were to be employed therein, reconciled to God, and cleansed from the pollution which they had gotten in Babylon: And that likewise the Church, represented here by Joshua, a chiefe officer of it, should be readmitted into Gods favour, to the end that the service which she should yeeld to him, might be accepted: which is figured by a forme of judgement, wherein Joshua is by the Lord absolved, and afterwards sanctified. standing] Like unto a man accused before a Judge. before the angel] Namely, before the Sonne of God, who is both Judge and Advocate, and defender of those that beleeve in him, in this judgement, 1 John 2:1. Saan standing at his right hand] That is, an adversarie. The adversarie, the malicious accuser of the faithfull to God: against whom he complains, pretending to be zealous of having justice done though he be onely moved through an envious, and malignant rage, Revelation 12:10. See Psalms 109:6. Job 1:6. which act agreeth with his name in Hebrew in this place. to resist him] Heb. to be his adversarie. To frustrate his prayers and intercession, by interposing his most bitter accusation against him and the Jews. What this accusation was, appears plainly by the 3. and 4. verses.