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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 28:14 - 28:14
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anointed cherub - Gesenius translates from an Aramaic root, “extended cherub.” English Version, from a Hebrew root, is better. “The cherub consecrated to the Lord by the anointing oil” [Fairbairn].
covereth - The imagery employed by Ezekiel as a priest is from the Jewish temple, wherein the cherubim overshadowed the mercy seat, as the king of Tyre, a demi-god in his own esteem, extended his protection over the interests of Tyre. The cherub - an ideal compound of the highest kinds of animal existence and the type of redeemed man in his ultimate state of perfection - is made the image of the king of Tyre, as if the beau ideal of humanity. The pretensions of Antichrist are the ulterior reference, of whom the king of Tyre is a type. Compare “As God ... in the temple of God” (2Th 2:4).
I have set thee - not thou set thyself (Pro 8:16; Rom 13:1).
upon the holy mountain of God - Zion, following up the image.
in ... midst of ... stones of fire - In ambitious imagination he stood in the place of God, “under whose feet was, as it were, a pavement of sapphire,” while His glory was like “devouring fire” (Exo 24:10, Exo 24:17).