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Ezekiel 32:7

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 32:7

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

When I shall put thee out; better, with the Revised Version, extinguish. The verb is used of lamps in . The change of metaphor is at first startling, but I follow Ewald, Hitzig, and Smend, in thinking that there is a traceable sequence of ideas.

The "dragon of the Egyptian waters" suggested the "dragon" which was conspicuous between Ursa Major and Minor among the constellations of the heavens, and the name of which, probably derived by the Greek astronomers from a remote past, suggested that of an enemy of God (comp.

). So taken, the new comparison finds a parallel in that of the King of Babylon to Lucifer, the morning star, in . Upon this there follows naturally the imagery of ; .

As the other trees of the forest had mourned for the cedar (), so the other lights of heaven mourn for that particular star which has been quenched for ever (comp. for the general imagery.

; ; , Hebrew [English version, :31].

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