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A Commentary
Chapter on the Account of his Perfections : See 1 Tim.
XXVIII. iii 6.
L/"V\J Ibid. Thou haft corrupted thy Wifdom by reafon
of thy 'Brightness.'] That height of Glory and
Authority to which I had advanced thee, has perverted
thy Judgment, and made thee abufe thy
Wifdom to Craft and Deceit. SeeVer. 16.
Ibid. / will lay thee before Kings-) that they may
behold thee.] I will make thee a Spectacle to other
Ver. 18.
Princes, expofe thee as a miferable Object before
their Eyes, that thou mayeit be an Example to
them to deter them from the like Practices. See
Chap. xvi. 41. xxiii. 48. xxxi. 14.
Ver. 18. Thou haft defiled thy Sanffuaries by the
Multitude of thine Iniquities, Sec] The Word
Mikdajf) does fometimes fignify a Palace, in which
Senfe it is probably taken aAmos viii. 1 $. where
our Tranflation renders it the Kjngs Chaffel : thus
Bifhop Tatrick underftands it, Exod. xxv. 8. where
the Englijh reads, Let them make me a SanBuary,
but it may probably mean a Palace : for God commanded
himfelf to be ferved and attended upon in
the Tabernacle, as a King is in his Court. The
Cherubims were his Throne, the Ark his Footftool,
the Altar his Table, and therefore called by that
Name, Chap. xli. 22. Malac.i.j. the Priefts his
Attendants, and the Shew-bread and Sacrifices his
Provifions. Thus the Word may moft probably be
taken here to this Senfe : that fince their Palaces
and ftately Buildings are filled with the Iniquity and
Injuftice which they have practifed in their Trade
and Commerce, therefore God will utterly deftroy
them by Nebuchadnezzar, who reduced the whole
City