AFterward he brought me to the gate, &c.] The Angel of the Covenant in the appearance of a man, Chap. 40. 3. having shewed to the Prophet that magnificent Temple, whereby the spirituall Church is prefigured, and having described it and the buildings thereof in the precedent Chapters, the proportion and measures whereof in all the parts was hard to find out and expresse, (as that which is spoken of them sheweth, and the rest remaining shall not be stood on so exactly) he cometh in these two next Chapters, the fourty third, and fourty fourth, to set out the sacred Ministery and worship therein: And the Prophet is brought from the West side where he ended the measuring of the circumference of all the holy place, Chap. 42. 19. to the place where he began, vers. 15. of Chap. 42. and Chap. 40. 6. which gate by a direct line looked toward the Temple. See Chap. 44. 2, 3.