After that he brought me toward the south,.... Having taken the dimensions of the east and north gates, the prophet was had on the south side of the building:and behold a gate toward the south; that led to the southern part of this fabric, and to the outward court there, exactly like the other two; there was no difference in them, which raised the prophet's wonder and attention; for, as Lipman says, there was no outward court in the second temple, but to the east of the inward; and it did not encompass the other sides; and so the more wonderful:and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according, to these measures; the measures of the east and north gates, which were just alike; for these all signified but one gateway or door into the church below, into heaven above, or into the presence of God here and hereafter, which is Christ, Joh 14:6.
Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect.