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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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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Ezekiel 28:1–10

18th Century

Theologian

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…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Ezekiel 28:9

19th Century

Bishop

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…

John Gill

John Gill

On Ezekiel 28:9

17th Century

Pastor

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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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Ezekiel 28:1–19

17th Century

Minister

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…