John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 28:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee, &c.] At thy fall; that such a mighty city, and powerful prince, should be destroyed at once; that, from such a height of prosperity, they should be brought to so low an estate of adversity; this will be the astonishment of kings, merchants, and others, that knew the riches, power, and flourishing estate of Rome, as before observed: thou shalt be a terror; to the said persons, who will be afraid to come nigh for fear of the same torments and punishment, (<661810>Revelation 18:10,15), or, though thou “hast been a terror”; or “terrors”; exceeding terrible to others in time past, yet now, as the Targum, “I will give thee (or make thee) as if thou wast not:” and never shalt thou be any more; as thou hast been, or after thy last destruction; so mystical Tyre or Babylon shall be no more, when once destroyed, (<661821>Revelation 18:21).

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