Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 28:1-10
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?.... When thou art in the enemies' hands, and just going to be put to death, wilt thou then confidently assert thy deity, and to his face tell him that thou art God? surely thy courage and thy confidence, thy blasphemy and impiety, will leave thee then; a bitter sarcasm this!
yet say--that is, still say; referring to Eze 28:2. but, &c.--But thy blasphemous boastings shall be falsified, and thou shalt be shown to be but man, and not God, in the hand (at the mercy) of Him.