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“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord GOD says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
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Verse 12. Resemblance. The king of Tyre, by his dignity and his natural perfections, bore in himself a certain resemblance to God, by reason of which he might be called the seal of resemblance, and so forth But what is here said to him is commonly understood of Lucifer, the king over all the children of pride. Challoner.—A seal is perfect when it represents things exactly. The prophet speaks ironically, to repress the king’s vanity.
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