Ezekiel 28:5

“By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic, &c.] Or, “by thy great wisdom in thy traffic”f484; through great skill in trade and commerce: hast thou increased thy riches; to a very great degree, a prodigious bulk; so antichrist has done, especially through trafficking with the souls of men, which is one part of his merchandise, as it was of Tyre, (<661813>Revelation 18:13 <262713>Ezekiel 27:13): and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches; which are apt to puff up and make men highminded, and swell them with a vain opinion of themselves, and to make haughty, insolent, and scornful, in their behaviour to others; thus elated with worldly grandeur and riches, the whore of Rome is represented…”

“(Psa 62:10).”

“The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual…”

“thy great wisdom: Heb. the greatness of thy wisdom, Pro 26:12; Isa 5:21; Rom 12:16 and by: Ezek. 27:12-36; Psa 62:10; Isa 23:3, Isa 23:8; Hos 12:7, Hos 12:8; Zac 9:3; Jam 4:13, Jam 4:14 and thine: Eze 28:2, Eze 16:49; Deu 6:11, Deu 6:12, Deu 8:13, Deu 8:14; Ch2 25:19, Ch2 32:23-25; Job 31:24, Job 31:25; Psa 52:7, Psa 62:10; Pro 11:28, Pro 30:9; Isa 10:8-14; Dan 4:30, Dan 4:37; Hos 13:6; Luk 12:16-21; Ti1 6:17 Ezekiel 28:6”