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Ezekiel 27:1-36
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Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:1-25Ezekiel 27:1-25 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryThose who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre intimates, that God's eye is…The Prosperity of Tyre. (b. c. 588.)Ezekiel 27:1-25 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleTHE PROSPERITY OF TYRE. (B. C. 588.) Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Tyrus, Ezekiel 27:2. It was yet in the height of its prosperity, and there appeared not the least symptom of its decay; y…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-25Ezekiel 27:1-25 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe beauty, glory, and replenishment of the city of Tyre. This portion of Ezekiel's writings evinces a very remarkable acquaintance with the geography and the economics of the then known world. Perhaps the prophet, livi…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-36Ezekiel 27:1-36 · The Pulpit CommentaryWreck 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…The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-36Ezekiel 27:1-36 · The Pulpit CommentaryA 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…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:1-25Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre intimates, that God's eye is…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Prosperity of Tyre. (b. c. 588.)THE PROSPERITY OF TYRE. (B. C. 588.) Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Tyrus, Ezekiel 27:2. It was yet in the height of its prosperity, and there appeared not the least symptom of its decay; y…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-36A 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-25The beauty, glory, and replenishment of the city of Tyre. This portion of Ezekiel's writings evinces a very remarkable acquaintance with the geography and the economics of the then known world. Perhaps the prophet, livi…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:1-36Wreck 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:2A lamentation for Tyre. In the previous chapter the prophet denounced judgment on Tyre; in this chapter he utters a lamentation over the doomed city. The one is in the spirit of vengeance, the other in the spirit of sym…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 27:2Take up a lamentation for Tyrus. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom sic transit gloria mundi, worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of the Homeric catalogue of ships ('Iliad,' 2:484-…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on 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 h…Joseph S. Exell and contributors