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Ezekiel 31:18

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 31:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

To whom art thou thus like, etc.? As in , the prophet passes from the past to the present, from the third person to the second, and as it were says to Hophra, "Thou art the man! all that I have said of Assyria is true of thee." This is Pharaoh and all his multitude. In the midst of thin uncircumcised (see note on ). As a matter of fact, the Egyptians practiced circumcision, and Ezekiel must be thought of as using the term as simply an epithet of scorn.

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