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upon EZEKIEL. 225
Navigation, of Letters and Sciences. Comp. Zjch. Chapter
ix. 2. xxvin.
Ver. 4. With thy Wifdoni and thy underfanding L/"V"\J
thou haft gotten thee Riches, &c] Thy Skill in Ycr -4-
Navigation and Trade has encreafed thy Wealth ;
See Ver. 5. and Zjch. ix. 3.
Ver. 7. 'Behold, I will bring Strangers tffony
thee, the terrible of the Nations.'] The Babyloni- '
d»x, who by their Conquefts have made themfelves
terrible to all the Countries round about
them : See Chap. xxx. 11, 12.
Ibid. They pall draw their Swords againfi the
Terfetlion of thy Beauty.] They {hall Deface
and Deftroy every thing which thou valuer!: as Ornamental,
or Ufeful. Comp. Ver. 12.
Ver. 8. Thou flj alt die the 'Deaths of them thatYer.S.
are flaw in the midft of the Seas."] Thou and
thy Mariners fhall be (lain in a Sea-Fight, or fhall
be deftroyed as thofe that are fwallowed by the
Sea in a Temper!:. See Chap.xxvi. 15. xxvii. 27,
28, 34.
Ver. 9. Wilt thou yet fay to him that flayeth thee, yer> «
/ am as God?] Mortality will certainly convince
thee of thy Folly in pretending to Divinity.
Compare Chapter xxxii. 19. So Tintarch tells us
of (Alexander, that he vainly affe&ed to be
thought Jufiterh Son, and next in Honour to
'Bacchut and Hercules: yet when he faw the
Blood run out of a Wound he had received,
which at the fame time gave him much Pain, he
confefs'd that was not fuch Blood as Homer faid tffued
from the Immortal Gods : Lib. 2. T>e n/Lkxandri
Fortima.
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