John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 28:5

"by thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;-" — Ezekiel 28:5 (ASV)

By your great wisdom and by your traffic
Or, "by your great wisdom in your traffic" ^F9 ; through great skill in trade and commerce: have you increased your 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, (Revelation 18:13) (Ezekiel 27:13) : and your heart is lifted up because of your 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 as proud, vain, and haughty, (Revelation 18:7) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F9: (Ktlkrb) "in negotione tua", V. L. Pagninus, Starckius; "in mercatura tua", Junius & Tremellius.