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upon EZEKIEL. 231
City to an Heap of Afhes and Rubbifh, which Chapter
^Alexander afterward made ufe of to make a Bank XXVIII.
or Caufey, by means of which he afTaulted the L/*V NJ
New City of Tyre and took it. See Dr. Trideaux,
Part 1. p. 484. If we follow the common Tranflation,
it imports a Denunciation of God's Judgments
for filling their idolatrous Temples with Riches
and Prefents gotten bylnjuftice. So God of-
ten punifhes the Contempt of Religion in general
in thofe who are miftaken in their own way of
Worfhip.
Ver. 19. ThouJJjalt be a Terror', &c] Sec Chap. Ver. ig.
xxvi. 21.
Ver. 21. Set thy Face again/1 Zjdon, &rcO Di-Ver. 21.
reel thy Face and thy Speech towards ZJdon, See
Chap. vi. 2. and foretel its Deftrudtion by the King
of 'Babylon: See Chap, xxxii. 30. Jer. xxv. 22.
xlviii. 4. Tyre and Sidon were Neighbours and
Partakers of the fame Fate both in Profperity and
Adverfity. Sidon was afterwards utterly deftroyed
by Ochus King ofTerfia.
Ver. 22. J will be glorified in the midft of f/w, Ver. 22.
&c] I will make my Power and Juftice known by
the Judgments I will execute upon thee. In the
fame SenfeGod faith Exod. xiv. 17. 1 will get me
Honour upon Tharaoh: where the Word in the
Original is the fame.
Ibid.