“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
The prince boasts 'I am a God,' claiming divine wisdom and a god's mind, yet he is only a man. God will bring violent foreigners against him; they will strip his wisdom of its glory and cast him down to die like the slain in the sea, stripped of his false divinity at last.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 28:1-10
Say unto the prince of Tyrus - But who was this prince of Tyrus? Some think Hiram; some, Sin; some, the devil; others, Ithobaal, with whom the chronology and circumstances best agree. Origen thought the guardian angel of the city was intended. I am a god - That is, I am absolute, independent, and accountable to none. He was a man of great pride and arrogance.
The prince's sin is plain: he has said aloud, 'I am a god,' and sits in the seat of God as though he were independent and unaccountable as the Lord alone is. God resists the proud, and such blasphemy will not stand. He mistakes the dependence his city has on him for his own dependence on no one at all.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 28:1-10