Ezekiel 27:4

Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. THY BORDERS ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS, THY BUILDERS HAVE PERFECTED THY BEAUTY. Tyre, in consonance with her sea-girt position, separated by a strait of half a mile from the mainland, is described as a ship built of the best material, and manned with the best mariners and skillful pilots but at last in tempestuous seas wrecked ()....

1-25 Those who live at ease are to be lamented, if they are not prepared for trouble. Let none reckon themselves beautified, any further than they are sanctified. The account of the trade of Tyre intimates, that God's eye is upon men when employed in worldly business. Not only when at church, praying and hearing, but when in markets and fairs, buying and selling. In all our dealings we should keep a conscience void of offence. God, as the common Father of mankind, makes one country abound in one commodity, and another in another, serviceable to the necessity or to the comfort and ornament of human life. See what a blessing trade and merchandise are to mankind, when followed in the fear of God. Besides necessaries, an abundance of things are made valuable only by custom; yet God allows us to use them. But when riches increase, men are apt to set their hearts upon them, and forget the Lord...

Verse Ezekiel 27:4. _THY BUILDERS HAVE PERFECTED THY BEAUTY._] Under the allegory of a _beautiful ship_, the prophet, here and in the following verses, paints the glory of this ancient city. _Horace_ describes the _commonwealth of Rome_ by the same allegory, and is as minute in his description, _Carm_. lib. i. Od. xiv: - O _navis_, referent in _mare_ te novi _Fluctus_? O quid agis? Fortiter occupa _Portum_. Nonne video, ut Nudum _remigio latus_, Et _malus_ celeri saucius _Africo_, _Antennaeque_ gemant? ac sine _funibus_...

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 27:2 TAKE UP A LAMENTATION FOR TYRUS. The dirge over the merchant-city that follows, the doom _sic transit gloria mundi, _worked out with a fullness of detail which reminds us of the Homeric catalogue of ships ('Iliad,' 2:484-770), is almost, if not altogether, without a parallel in the history of literature. It can scarcely have rested on anything but personal knowledge. Ezekiel, we must believe, had, at some time or other in his life, trod the sinful streets of the great city, and noted the mingled crowd of many nations and in many costumes that he met there, just as we infer from Dante's vivid description of the dockyards of Venice ('Inf.,' 21.7-15) that he had visited that city. Apart from its poetic or prophetic interest, it is for us almost the _locus classicus _as to the geography and commerce of t

THY BORDERS ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS, Fixed by the Lord himself, and which could never be removed. Tyre stood about half a mile from the continent, surrounded with the waters of the sea, till it was made a peninsula by Alexander: THY BUILDERS HAVE PERFECTED THY BEAUTY. The Sidonians were the first builders of the city, as Justin q says; who began and carried on the building of it to the utmost of their knowledge and skill; and which was afterwards perfected by other builders, who made it the most beautiful city in all those parts; unless this is to be understood of her shipbuilders, who brought the art of building ships in her to such a perfection, as made her famous throughout the world; since they are immediately spoken of without any other antecedent. q Ex Trago, l. 18. c. 3....

Ezekiel 27:1. Ezekiel 27:1 give an interesting description of the world-wide commerce and glory of this proud world city. “Sic transit gloria mundi,” thus passeth the glory of the world! Of the proud and wicked mistress of the sea nothing but ruins remain and her very site is no longer known. What her past glory was is made known by the prophet, yet Ezekiel never had been to that city, nor did he have any knowledge of her grandeur, her great wealth and far reaching commerce. God revealed all unto him. The description of her great commerce reminds us of that coming world-system as described in the last book of the Bible, the Revelation. Babylon the Great will be both an ecclesiastical and commercial world center. Her commerce is just like the commerce of Tyrus...

EZEKIEL 27. THE DIRGE OVER TYRE. The interest of the brilliant poem that follows is greatly enhanced by the description of the commerce of Tyre in a passage (Ezekiel 27:9_ b_ - Ezekiel 27:25_ a_) remarkable alike for its textual difficulty and for its importance as a source for our knowledge of the trade of the ancient world. Tyre is compared to a gallant ship, of finished beauty, with equipments the finest and costliest, manned and piloted by the most skilful of sailors (Ezekiel 27:1). In Ezekiel 27:5, Senir = Herman. In Ezekiel 27:6, Kittim =

BUILDERS. sons. Compare Iea. 62. c....

_borders … midst of the seas_ lit. _heart_of the seas, a phrase which appears to mean not "far out at sea," but, in the deep waters of the sea, ch. Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:8; Exodus 15:8; Jonah 2:3; Psalms 46:2. The term "borders" seems to mean station, moorings (Ezekiel 27:25). The proud ship was conscious of her beauty. The ship is a figure for the maritime city, the mistress of trade, built upon an ocean rock, as if moored in the sea. The city was without doubt beautiful (ch....

A. The Ship Prepared for Sailing 27:1-11 TRANSLATION (1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) NOW as for you, son of man, take Up a lamentation over Tyre, (3) and say to Tyre, who dwells beside the entrances of the sea, merchant of the peoples unto many coastlands, Thus says the Lord GOD: O Tyre, you have said, I am perfect in beauty. (4) Your borders are in the heart of the sea, your builders have perfected your beauty. (5) With fir trees from Senir they have constructed all the planks; cedars from Lebanon they have taken to make the most for you. (6) With oaks of Bashan they have fashioned your oars; your deck they made of ivory inlaid in boxwood from the coastlands of Cypress. (7) Of exquisitely embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, which served as your ensign; purple and blue from the coastlands of Elishah was your awning. (8) The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad we...