“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Prince. The Jews say Hiram, (Saint Jerome) supposing that he lived a thousand years; though this is not requisite, as he died only four hundred and thirty years before. The idea is childish. The king who was taken and slain, at this siege, was probably ( Calmet.) Ithobalos. Jos. Ant. x. 11.—Origen applies this to the angel guardian of Tyre. Saint Augustine thinks an allusion is made to the fall of Lucifer. But it may all refer to the king, ( Calmet.) though others explain part of him and the rest of the devil. Saint Jerome E.