14. anointed cherub--GESENIUS translates from an Aramaic root,
"extended cherub." English Version, from a Hebrew root, is
better. "The cherub consecrated to the Lord by the anointing oil"
[FAIRBAIRN].
covereth--The imagery employed by Ezekiel as a priest is from
the Jewish temple, wherein the cherubim overshadowed the mercy seat, as
the king of Tyre, a demi-god in his own esteem, extended his protection
over the interests of Tyre. The cherub--an ideal compound of the
highest kinds of animal existence and the type of redeemed man in his
ultimate state of perfection--is made the image of the king of Tyre, as
if the beau ideal of humanity. The pretensions of Antichrist are the
ulterior reference, of whom the king of Tyre is a type. Compare "As God
. . . in the temple of God"
(2Th 2:4).
I have set thee--not thou set thyself
(Pr 8:16;
Ro 13:1).
upon the holy mountain of God--Zion, following up the image.
in . . . midst of . . . stones of fire--In ambitious imagination he
stood in the place of God, "under whose feet was, as it were, a pavement
of sapphire," while His glory was like "devouring fire"
(Ex 24:10, 17).
JFB.
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