Ezekiel 27:13

Javan designs Greece, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it; especially that part of it called Ionia, from Javan the son of Japheth, Genesis 10:2 and Tubal, and Meshech, were also sons of Japheth; the former are the Iberi and Albanians, as Jerom and others, among whom were a city called Thabilaca, by Ptolemy F23 Geograph. l. 5. c. 12. ; and the latter the Cappadocians, with whom is a city called Mazaca F24 Joseph. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1. .

They traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy markets ; or, "the souls of men" F25 בנפש אדם "animabus hominum", Pagninus, Vatablus, Cocceius, Starckius. ; they bought up men and women in the several countries to which they belonged, or where they traded, and brought them to Tyre, and sold them for slaves; and the Ionian and Grecian slaves were had in great esteem: and the best brass, of which vessels were made, was had from Corinth, Delus, and Aeginetus; according to Pliny F26 Nat. Hist. l. 34. c. 2. , Cappadocia was famous for it also: in the first of these merchandises Tyrus was remarkably a type of antichrist, who is said to deal in such wares, the souls of men, Revelation 18:13 . The word here rendered "markets", Gussetius F1 Ebr. Comment. p. 642. also observes, does not design the place of commerce, but the act of negotiation or trade; and so it is rendered by many F2 מערבך την εμποριαν βου , Sept.; "negotiationem tuam", Tigurine version; "in commercio tuo", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus; "mercaturam tuam", Cocceius. .