Ezekiel 28:5

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic ,.... Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" F9 ברכלתך "in negotione tua", V. L. Pagninus, Starckius; "in mercatura tua", Junius & Tremellius. ; through great skill in trade and commerce:

hast thou increased thy riches ; to a very great degree, a prodigious bulk; so antichrist has done, especially through trafficking with the souls of men, which is one part of his merchandise, as it was of Tyre, Revelation 18:13 ,

and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches ; which are apt to puff up and make men highminded, and swell them with a vain opinion of themselves, and to make haughty, insolent, and scornful, in their behaviour to others; thus elated with worldly grandeur and riches, the whore of Rome is represented as proud, vain, and haughty, Revelation 18:7 .