2. Because, &c.--repeated resumptively in
Eze 28:6.
The apodosis begins at
Eze 28:7.
"The prince of Tyrus" at the time was Ithobal, or Ithbaal II; the name
implying his close connection with Baal, the Phœnician supreme
god, whose representative he was.
I am a god, I sit in . . . seat of God . . . the
seas--As God sits enthroned in His heavenly citadel exempt from all
injury, so I sit secure in my impregnable stronghold amidst the
stormiest elements, able to control them at will, and make them
subserve my interests. The language, though primarily here applied to
the king of Tyre, as similar language is to the king of Babylon
(Isa 14:13, 14),
yet has an ulterior and fuller accomplishment in Satan and his
embodiment in Antichrist
(Da 7:25; 11:36, 37;
2Th 2:4;
Re 13:6).
This feeling of superhuman elevation in the king of Tyre was fostered
by the fact that the island on which Tyre stood was called "the holy
island" [SANCONIATHON], being sacred to Hercules,
so much so that the colonies looked up to Tyre as the mother city of
their religion, as well as of their political existence. The
Hebrew for "God" is El, that is, "the Mighty One."
yet, &c.--keen irony.
set thine heart as . . . heart of God--Thou thinkest of thyself as if
thou wert God.
JFB.
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