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Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
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The Ultimate Reality Check
Commentators describe this verse as a 'bitter sarcasm.' God confronts the prince's delusion of divinity with the brutal reality of his mortality. At the moment of his death, in the hands of his executioner, his claim to be a god will be utterly exposed as a lie, revealing him as a 'poor, weak, frail, mortal, trembling, dying man.'
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east, the majesty and glory of a people were concentrated in the person of their monarch, w…
19th Century
Anglican
Thou shalt be a man.— The future, added to the text by the words in italics, should be omitted. The original form is exactly the s…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am God ? &c.] When you are in the enemies' hands, and just going to be…
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Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the s…
