Ezekiel 40:1
40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the {a}
     beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in
     the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the same
     day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me there.

     (a) The Jews counted the beginning of the year after two
         sorts: for their feasts they began to count in March
         and for their other affairs in September: so that this
         is to be understood of September.

Ezekiel 40:3
40:3 And he brought me there, and, behold, [there was] a {b}
     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.

     (b) Which was an angel in the form of a man, that came to
         measure out this building.