Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 31:14 - 31:14
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
To the end; all this is designed to be a warning to mortals.
All the trees, i: e. the emperors, potentates, kings, or rich flourishing states.
By the waters; planted most commodiously, and furnished most abundantly with power and wealth.
Exalt themselves; grow proud, because they are high, shoot out tops above all the thick boughs, their neighbours. This caution against pride and self-exalting is three times repeated, that all, especially great men, and this proud king of Egypt, to whom this parable is propounded, should be humble.
For they are all delivered unto death; for if by office they are gods, yet by nature they are men, and by the decree of God, who cannot die, these gods must, as men, die, be laid in the grave, forgotten like other men, like the children of mean men, for death and the grave make no distinction.
Be not proud, God will pull down such; be humble, you must die.