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204 A ":.C O jg ME NTARY
Cbapoerahe .Year, Og&ft&gftgft^ -sksVi'ofetytex. Sesjoh.
L/~V?0 Ibid. £Z?* W
come into -my. Stores. Compare Ija.lx. 5.
turned unto me."] Her Wealth is
Ibid. /yW/ £f replenified iiow0fe is I aid waff ej]
Tyre wis a noted Market for all forts of Trade : So
wl^njenijalem was taken and fackt, the Spoil of
the City was carried thither for fale, and probably
feveral of the Inhabitants being made Captives,
were fold there for Slaves, a Traffick the Tjrians
dealt in veryanucjj, Cha,p. xxvii. 1$. This Interpretation
may be confirmed by comparing it with
Joel iii. 4, 5, 6. where the Prophet upbraids the
Tynans for making Merchandise both of the Perfons
and Subftance of the Jews, when they came
into their Hands. To the fame Purpofe we read
Maccab. iii. 41. that when Lyfias came with great
Forces to fubdue the Jews, the Merchants of the
Count rey took Silver and Gold and came into the
Camp to buy the Children of Ijrael for Slaves.
Ver. ?. Ver. $• I will caufe many Nations to come up
againft thee, as the Sea caufeth his Waves to come
np.l The Chaldeans and their Confederates : Compare
Jer. xxxiv. 1. li. 2,7. whom the Prophet compares
to the Waves of the Sea, which come up
with an irrefiftible Force : See Jer. li. 42. Armies
are elfewhere reprefented by an Inundation that
carries all before it. See Ifa. viii. 7. Dan. ix. 26.
xi. 22.
Ver. 4, 5. Ver. 4, 5. / will [crape her Duft from her, and
make her like the Top of a Rock. It Jhall be a
place for the ff reading of Nets in themidfi of the
Sea.] I will make an entire Riddance of her Buildings,
fo that not fo much as any Duft or Rubbifh
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