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Ezekiel
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The LORD’s word came again to me, saying, “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god— See also: Ezekiel 28:92 Thessalonians 2:4Isaiah 14:13-14behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you. See also: Daniel 1:20Daniel 2:22Daniel 2:27-28By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries. See also: Proverbs 23:4-5Deuteronomy 8:17-18Proverbs 18:11By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—” See also: Psalms 62:10Psalms 52:7Ezekiel 28:2“‘therefore the Lord GOD says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God, See also: Ezekiel 28:2Exodus 9:171 Corinthians 10:22therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness. See also: Ezekiel 31:12Ezekiel 32:12Ezekiel 30:11They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas. See also: Ezekiel 27:26-27Ezekiel 27:34Psalms 88:4-5Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. See also: Ezekiel 28:2Isaiah 31:3Psalms 82:7You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord GOD.’” See also: Ezekiel 31:18Ezekiel 32:19Ezekiel 32:21Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. See also: Ezekiel 19:1Ezekiel 26:172 Corinthians 1:22You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created. See also: Ezekiel 28:15Ezekiel 27:16Genesis 2:8You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire. See also: Exodus 30:26Isaiah 14:12-15Ezekiel 28:13You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. See also: 2 Peter 2:4Ezekiel 28:17-18Romans 7:9By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire. See also: 1 Timothy 6:9-10Habakkuk 2:8Habakkuk 2:17Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you. See also: Ezekiel 28:5Proverbs 16:18James 4:6By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. See also: Malachi 4:3Revelation 18:8Amos 1:9-10All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.”’” See also: Ezekiel 26:21Revelation 18:21Revelation 18:15-19The LORD’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, See also: Ezekiel 6:2Genesis 10:15Jeremiah 25:22and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her. See also: Ezekiel 39:13Ezekiel 20:41Exodus 14:4For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall within her, with the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD. See also: Ezekiel 38:22Ezekiel 5:12Jeremiah 15:2“‘“There will no longer be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.” See also: Numbers 33:55Joshua 23:132 Corinthians 12:7“‘The Lord GOD says: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am shown as holy among them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. See also: Jeremiah 32:37Ezekiel 20:41Ezekiel 11:17They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely when I have executed judgments on all those around them who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.”’” See also: Ezekiel 28:24Ezekiel 28:22Ezekiel 34:25-28
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 28:2
Ver. 2. Prince. The Jews say Hiram, (S. Jer.) supposing that he lived a thousand years; though this is not requisite, as he died only four hundred and thirty years before. The idea is childish.
The king who was taken and slain, at this siege, was probably (C.) Ithobalos.
Jos. Ant. x. 11. ---
Origen applies this to the angel guardian of Tyre. S. Aug. thinks an allusion is made to the fall of Lucifer. But it may all refer to the king, (C.) though others explain part of him and the rest of the devil. S. Jer. E.
↑ 2Ezekiel 28:3
Ver. 3. Than Daniel; viz. in thy own conceit. The wisdom of Daniel was so much celebrated in his days, that it became a proverb among the Chaldees, when any one would express an extraordinary wisdom, to say he was as wise as Daniel. Ch. W. --- He was now at court, and had explained the dream of Nabuchodonosor. Dan. ii. 27.
↑ 3Ezekiel 28:10
Ver. 10. Uncircumcised. The Jews deemed this a disgrace. 1 K. xxxi. 4. The king would be exposed to eternal death, being devoid of faith, &c. C.
↑ 10Ezekiel 28:12
Ver. 12. Resemblance. The king of Tyre, by his dignity and his natural perfections, bore in himself a certain resemblance to God, by reason of which he might be called the seal of resemblance, &c. But what is here said to him is commonly understood of Lucifer, the king over all the children of pride. Ch. ---
A seal is perfect when it represents things exactly. The prophet speaks ironically, to repress the king's vanity.
↑ 12Ezekiel 28:13
Ver. 13. Paradise. Thou hadst every thing delightful at Tyre. C. --- Covering.
Heb. "bandage;"
diadem, (H.) or belt. Sept. specify twelve stones. See Ex. xxviii. 17. --- Pipes; music used at the coronation, which was celebrated as a birth-day. C. --- God give and withdraws power from all kings. As long as they act well, they are a sort of sanctuary. H.
↑ 13Ezekiel 28:14
Ver. 14. Stretched out. That is, thy wings extended. This alludes to the figure of the cherubims in the sanctuary, which with stretched out wings covered the ark, (Ch.) on the holy mountain. S.
Jer. &c. --- Fire. That is, bright and precious stones, which sparkle like fire. Ch.
--- With these the king's robes glittered, or he walked upon them. Est. i. 6. C. ---
Calcacabatur onyx. Lucan x.
↑ 14Ezekiel 28:15
Ver. 15. Iniquity. Tyre was before wicked; but when the king pretended to be a god, (v. 2.) it could no longer be endured. W.
↑ 15Ezekiel 28:17
Ver. 17. Beauty. Riches have corrupted thy heart.
↑ 17Ezekiel 28:18
Ver. 18. Sanctuaries, or temples, which was a crime (C.) in an idolater, as he took them to be the temples of a real deity. H.
↑ 18Ezekiel 28:22
Ver. 22. Sidon. It gave rise to Tyre, yet was now inferior, though independent of it, (Is. xxiii. 4.) or subject to Egypt. Diod. ii. 2. --- It was now pillaged.
↑ 22Ezekiel 28:24
Ver. 24. Bitterness. Jezabel came hence; (4 K. xvi. 31.) and the Phœnicians hemmed in the Israelites as much as possible, and fought against them. C. ---
Sidon was near Tyre, and imitating her crimes was also punished.
↑ 24Ezekiel 28:25
Ver. 25. When. All shall praise God, seeing that he receives his people again after he has justly chastised them. W.
↑ 25License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses