of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God:
Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit
in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and
not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

28:3. Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.

Thou art wiser than Daniel... Viz., in thy own conceit. The wisdom of
Daniel was so much celebrated in his days, that it became a proverb
amongst the Chaldeans, when any one would express an extraordinary
wisdom, to say he was as wise as Daniel.

28:4. In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong:
and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.

28:5. By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast
increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

28:6. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up
as the heart of God:

28:7. Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest
of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of
thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.

28:8. They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the
death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

28:9. Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas
thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

28:10. Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

28:11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up
a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:

28:12. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of
resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Thou wast the seal of resemblance... The king of Tyre, by his dignity
and his natural perfections, bore in himself a certain resemblance to
God, by reason of which he might be called the seal of resemblance, etc.
But what is here said to him is commonly understood of Lucifer, the king
over all the children of pride.

28:13. Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious
stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the
chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the
carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes
were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

28:14. Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting,