エゼキエル書 27:3-11 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:1-36

Wreck of a stately ship. There is a striking resemblance between a gallant ship and an empire. Many persons and orders are united in a state under one governor or captain. There is a unity amid diversity. A state, like a ship, has interchange of interests with other nations. Upon the skill and prudence of the pilot depends the prosperity of empire or ship. The whole life of Tyre was poured into the channel of commerce. Hence the figure would be readily appreciated. I. THE COMPONENT ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:1-36

A celebration of remarkable prosperity. "The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus," etc. "We have here," says Hengstenberg," the lamentation over the fall of Tyre, announced in the foregoing chapter. First, its present glory is presented at full length to the view ( Ezekiel 27:1-25 ); then its fall, the importance of which can only be understood from the knowledge of its glory. We must profoundly know the gloria mundi if we... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:3

We begin with the picture of the city, situate at the entry (Hebrew, entries ) , or harbors of the sea. Of these Tyre had two—the northern, known as the Sidonian; the southern, as the Egyptian. There she dwelt, a merchant of the peoples , that came, in the wider sense of the word (see Ezekiel 26:15 ), from the isles of the Mediterranean. I am perfect in beauty. The boast here put into the mouth of the city appears afterwards as the utterance of its ruler, or as applied to him ( ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:3

(last clause, "Thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty") AEstheticism as a religion. The craze for aestheticism has been exalted into the creed of a new religion. It is well so see once for all what this means, and how hollow, foolish, and fatal are its pretensions. I. AESTHETICISM AS A RELIGION IS THE WORSHIP OF BEAUTY . 1. It is more than the enjoyment of beauty, which is innocent and even helpful to a right appreciation of God's wonderful works. Beauty implies... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:4

In the midst of the seas ; literally, in the heart (Revised Version). The words were true of the island-city, but Ezekiel has already present to his thoughts the idealized picture of the city under the figure of its stateliest ship. The builders are ship-builders, and in the verses that follow we have a picture of the Bucentaur of the Venice of the ancient world. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:5

Fir trees of Senti . The name appears in Deuteronomy 3:9 and Song of Solomon 4:8 as Shenir ; in 1 Chronicles 5:23 it is spelt as here. From Deuteronomy 3:9 we learn that it was the Amorite name for Hermon, as Sirion was the Sidonian name. In 1 Kings 5:10 Hiram King of Tyro appears as supplying Solomon with the fir and cedar timber mentioned here for the erection of his palace, the house of the forest of Lebanon ( 1 Kings 7:2 ). The fir tree was more commonly used for ships,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:6

The high plateau of Bashan, the region east of the sea of Galilee and the Jordan, now known as the Hauran, was famous then, as it is now, for its oak forests and its wild cattle ( Psalms 22:12 ). The company of the Ashurites , etc.; better, with the Revised Version, they have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood . The Authorized Version follows the present Hebrew text, but the name of the nation there is not the same as that of the Assyrians, and corresponds with the Ashurites... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:7

For the fine linen of Egypt , the Byssus famous in its commerce, see Genesis 41:42 ; Exodus 26:36 . This, which took the place of the coarse canvas of the common ships, was made more magnificent by being embroidered with purple or crimson, with gold borders. The ship of Antony and Cleopatra had purple sails, which, as they swelled out with the wind, served as a banner. The ancient ships had no flags or pennons. So the Revised Version renders, of fine linen, was thy sail, that it might... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:8

The two cities are named as tributaries of Tyro from which she drew her sailors, the Tyrians themselves acting as captains and pilots. Zidon (now Saida ) is named in Genesis 10:15 as the firstborn of Canaan, and was older than Tyre itself ( Isaiah 23:2 , Isaiah 23:12 ). Arvad is identified with the Greek Aradus, the modern Ruad, an island about two miles from the coast, about two miles north of the mouth of the river Eleutheros ( Nahr-el-Kebir ). It is scarcely a mile in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:9

The ancients of Gebal . The word is used in the sense of "elders" or "senators," the governing body. Gebal, for which the LXX . gives Biblii, is identified with the Greek Byblus. The name appears in Psalms 83:7 in connection, among other nations, with Tyre and Asshur, as allied with them against Israel; in Joshua 13:5 as near Lebanon and Hermon; in 1 Kings 5:18 (margin Revised Version) as among the stonemasons who worked with Hiram's builders. Byblus was situated on an eminence... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:1-36

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:1-36

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 27:9

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