The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599], at sacred-texts.com
(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.
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.