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upon EZEKIEL. 245
Judgments upon particular Places and Nations Chapter
are an Earneft of that General Judgment, when XXX.
he fhall execute Judgment upon all the Un- L/WJ
godly. See the Note upon Ifa. xiii. 10.
Ver. 4. Great fain flail be in Ethiopia."] SeeVer.4.
Ver. 5, and 9.
Ibid. oAnd her foundations fhall be broken
down.] Her ftrong Forts and Citadels : Compare
Ifa. xvi. 7. Jer. 1. 1 5.
Ver. 5. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia.] The Ver. 5.
Names in the Hebrew are Cujh Thut, and
Lad : "Who are mentioned together as the
Egyptian Allies, Jer. xlvl 9. See the Note
there, and Comp. Nahum iii. 9. Cujh probably
fignifies Ethiopia here ( See Chap, xxix.
10.) as being joined with That and Lud : which
were People of aAfrica. That is rendered Libya
by our Interpreters here and in that place of
Jeremy ; but Thut and Lubim were a diftincl:
People, as hath been obferved upon Chap, yxv'ih .
10. Thut may denote fome part of aAfrica
near Egypt, and Lud probably fignifies fome
part of the eAbyJJines Country.
Ibid. aAnd all the minglea Teofle.] All their
Auxiliaries : Compare Jer. 1. 37. If we diftinguifli
thefefrom the Men of the League which
follow, they may mean that mixture of Qaria?is,
Ionians and other Nations lying upon the Mediterranean
Sea, which eApries got together to
encounter vimafis, who together with him were
deftroyed. See Dr. Trideaux, ubi Jupra ; and
the Note on Jer. xxv. 10.
Ibid. aAnd Chub.] The Cubij are mentioned
in Ttolemy as a People of Mareotis^ a Province
of Egypt* Ibid.