12 and speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says Yihvah of Hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yihvah;
behold a man whose name is Branch – the Branch is Christ (Zech 3:8; Isa 4:2 etc). The priest’s name is Joshua, which is Jesus in Greek. The Targum calls Him “the Anointed” (Christ in Greek).
“The Branch” which is semah in Hebrew is translated as “the East” (ANATOLY) in the Greek Septuagint. And therefore, the Douay-Rheims says, “And thou shalt speak to him, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: BEHOLD A MAN, THE ORIENT IS HIS NAME: and under him shall he spring up, and shall build a temple to the Lord.”
This interpretation is interesting, because it agrees to the message of Ezek 43-47, “and behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the East” (Ezek 43:1).
In 30 AD, the Jewish theologian Philo identified “the East” as “the firstborn.”
“. . .’Behold, a man whose name is the East!’ … you will then agree that the name of the East has been given to him with great felicity. For the Father of the universe has caused him to spring up as the eldest son, whom, in another passage, he calls the firstborn; and he who is thus born, imitating the ways of his Father. . .” (On the Confusion of Tongues, XIV, 62-63).
He will build the temple of the LORD – the Spirit of Christ, who makes the body of Christ