midst of the seas. 27. Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin *. 28. Thy suburbs shall shake † at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29. And all, that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30. And shall lift up their voice over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes. 31. And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart, and bitter wailing. 32. And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, What city is like Tyre, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33. When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and thy

Thy mariners--thy men of war-shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.] The whole Antichristian confederacy of the beast, the infidel king, and the vassal sovereigns of the Latin earth, shall be destroyed along with the false prophes in one and the same season of unexampled trouble.

+ Thy suburbs shall shake.] The fall of Babylon shall be felt in the most remote parts of her spiritual empire.

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merchandise. 34. In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. 35. All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. 36. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

xxviii. 1. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: 2. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God * in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3. Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee. 4. With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten silver and gold into thy treasures: 5. By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic thou

* I sit in the seat of God.] The man of sin, who is described in a manner precisely similar, is," in profession," as Bp. Newton observes, "a Christian, and a Christian Bishop. His "sitting in the temple of God plainly implies his having his seat

or cathedra in the Christian church: and he sitteth there as "God, especially at his inauguration, when he sitteth upon the "high altar in St. Peter's church, and maketh the table of the "Lord his footstool, and in that position receiveth adoration. Bp. Newton's Dissert. XXII."

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hast increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: 6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; 7. Behold therefore, I will bring the strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness: 8. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 9. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God: but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 10. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised, by the hand of the strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

11. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying; 12. Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God: Thou art like a signet of curious engraving*; thou art full of wisdom and perfect

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*Thou art like a signet of curious engraving.] ❝xxii. 24. Hag. ii. 23. Houbigant observes, that all the "ancients read a similitudinis: hoc est effigiem habens in sculptura sua. This is also the reading of eight M.S.S. and of "three originally. Dathius renders, Tu es annulus bene figu"ratus." Abp. Newcome in loc.

Σε αποσφράγισμα ὁμοιώσεως. (LXX.) Tu sigillum es exemplaris. (Vers: Syriac :) Tu signaculum similitudinis. (Vers: Arab: et Vulg:) Tu similis es vasi figurato, quod scitè compositum est et absolutum in pulchritudine sua. Chald. Paraph

in beauty. 13. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God: every precious stone is thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14. Thou art the anointed cherub that spreadeth a veil; and I have permitted thee thou wast in the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire* thou

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* The stones of fire.] An allusion to the Urim and Thummim. The Pope pretends to the samé oracular infallibility of decision in the Christian church, that the Jewish high priest by his supernatural intercourse with God really possessed in the Levitical church. Josephus maintains, that the Urim and Thummim were the precious stones of the high-priest's breast plate, which discovered the will of God by their extraordinary lustre, thereby predicting the success of events to those who consulted them: for, when these stones gave no extraordinary lustre, it was concluded that God did not approve of the matter in question. He adds, that it was 200 years, at the time of his writing, since these stones had left off shewing this lustre. (Ant. L. iii. C. 8.)

It is possible however, that this passage may relate, not only to the oracular infallibility of the Pope, but likewise to his universal episcopacy. An expression, somewhat similar to that of walking up and down in the midst of the stones of fire, occurs in the Apocalypse. "These things saith he, that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks." (Rev. ii. 1.) That is to say, according to the explanation of Archdeacon Woodhouse, The supreme head of the Christian church is now in the act of

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walkedst up and down. 15. Thou wast perfect * in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God, and I will destroy thee, O cherub that spreadest a veil, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to thee ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18. Thou hast defiled thy sanc

"visiting and superintending. To the church of Ephesus, with "which he begins, he represents himself in that character "and office, as walking amidst his churches, and directing " and supporting their teachers." (Apoc. translated, p. 44.) Perhaps therefore the circumstance of the mystical Tyrian prince's walking up and down in the midst of the stones of fire may denote the universal episcopacy of the pretended vicar of Christ, who claims the right of superintending or walking amidst all the churches. In this case, the passage would be exactly parallel to that, wherein Daniel represents the little papal horn as having eyes like the eyes of a man. By its eyes," says Sir Isaac Newton," it was a secr; and, by its mouth speaking great "things and changing times and laws, it was a prophet-A

seer, moxomos, is a bishop in the literal sense of the word; "and this church claims the universal bishopric." Obsery. on Dan. C. 7.

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