“‘“Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks. They traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. Syrian: always much addicted to commerce. Saint Jerome—Septuagint read Adam for Aram, as if the traffic in men was meant: ( Calmet.) “ivory, and to those who brought, thou gavest thy rewards. (16) Men of thy traffic,” and so forth Bible.—Linen. Hebrew buts, “silk” extracted from the pinna fish. 1 Chronicles 15:27. Silk. Hebrew ramoth, may rather denote unicorns. Job 28:18. Calmet.—Chodchod. It is the Hebrew name for some precious stone, but of what kind in particular, interpreters are not agreed. Challoner.—Some say the carbuncle, and so forth S. Jerom renders it the jasper. Isaiah 54:12. Worthington.—Here he confesses he knows not the meaning. Calmet.