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Bible Commentaries
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical Lange's Commentary
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Lange, Johann Peter. "Commentary on Ezekiel 27". "Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/lcc/ezekiel-27.html. 1857-84.
Lange, Johann Peter. "Commentary on Ezekiel 27". "Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical". https://www.studylight.org/
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HOMILETICAL HINTS
On Ch. 27
Ezekiel 27:1-10. âWhen Tyre rejoices over Jerusalem, then the prophet raises a lamentation over Tyre: this is the recompense of the piousâ (Stck.).âIf we must not repay evil with evil, there still is with God a recompensing of evil with evil.ââAll human and earthly things go out at last in lamentationâ (Stck.).âThis is the lamentation of the Spirit, that the world sows to the flesh, and of the flesh reaps corruption.âWith kettledrums and flutes the world begins, but it ends with wailing and misery.ââWe must profoundly know the gloria mundi, if we are to take to heart the sic transit gloria mundiâ (Hengst.).
Ezekiel 27:3-4. âLet no one boast of his strength or worldly elevation; how soon can the Lord, if His judgments should break forth, bring all to the dust of desolation! Jeremiah 9:23; Jeremiah 9:25â (Tüb. B.).âThere is a perfection of beauty which is nothing else than ripeness for judgment.âBeauty is a transient splendour, but the knowledge of the Eternal leads from glory to glory.ââIn boasting one sees what things the heart is full ofâ (Stck.).âThe contrast between Tyre and the daughter of the king, Psalms 45:0, who is all beautiful within.ââThe security is very different: one is of faith, since we know that we are reconciled through Christ, and, even if the world should fall in ruin, can remain in peace; the other proceeds from unbelief, which has respect to men, walls, etc., and relies upon theseâ (L.).ââThere are many kinds of beauty, but none perfect without godlilinessâ (Stck.).ââWe shall also have to think of that woman who, Revelation 18:0., says, I am itâ (B. B.).âThe buildings of men and the building of God, namely, His church, against which not even the gates of hell can prevail.
Ezekiel 27:5-9. Comp. with the splendid ship Tyre the heavenly Jerusalem, Revelation 21:0ââWhen people once surrender themselves to pride, pomp, and dissipation, they can hardly lay them aside again; nay, they often know not, from inconsideration and wantonness, what they should do, Deuteronomy 32:15 sq.â (O.)âTrim the lamps !âEvery land has its peculiar gift from God, and the gifts of God must thus shamefully minister to the vanity of men!âGod forbids the misuse of His gifts as an unprofitable waste.âIt is quite right to take into oneâs service and pay qualified persons, but woe to him who makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord!
Ezekiel 27:10. The best defence is after all another thing than soldiers, Psalms 33:16-17.âThe angel of the Lord encamps round about those who fear Him, Psalms 34:8 [7].âGodâs camping host for believers, Genesis 32:0; 2 Kings 6:17.âWe must, according to Ephesians 6:10 sqq., put on the divine armour, which protects land and people.
Ezekiel 27:12-25. Men run through the wide world for the sake of merchandise, while the word of God, which makes rich without trouble, and imparts treasure which neither moth nor rust corrupts, nor can thieves steal, is so near us!âThe one pearl of great price Tyre did not make an article of traffic.âWhat advantages it to gain the whole world if the soul suffers damage?ââEzekiel writes as little from the point of view of a minister of commerce, as Isaiah in Ezekiel 3:0 does from that of a millinerâ (Hengst.).âCovetousness must serve all.ââO how many gifts of God are in the service of sin!â (Right.)ââGreat merchant-cities, great cities of sinâ (Tüb. B.).
Ezekiel 27:13. How often and in how many ways are menâs souls the object of buying and selling!
Ezekiel 27:24. âWith things perfectly beautiful man was certainly to occupy himself. But where are they to be found in the earthly sphere? Colossians 3:2 â (B. B.).
Ezekiel 27:25. âThat Tyre was so full and honoured, while Zion became always poorer and poorer, and sunk miserableâthis formed a stumbling-block to the people of God. But what has become of all the fulness and glory of Tyre? Zion, on the other hand, has gloriously blossomed anewâ (Hengst.).
Ezekiel 27:26-36. âThe glory of the earth shall become dust and ashes.ââThe higher we reach, so much the more precipitous, and so much the deeper will be the fall.âThe element of our security can so easily become the element of our misery: here the sea, elsewhere gold, oneâs position, etc.âA person of high estate when cast down is lower than one who has always been in a humble position.âThe wind does not always fill our sails; it often also, and suddenly, tears them short and small.âIn prosperity men so rarely consider how vain it is, that in adversity they cry out the more loudly; but, alas! only upon the vanity of earthly things, and not upon the vanity of their earthly hearts.âIt is with that which men build for themselves, such that if one stone should fall out of the wall, all the other stones will follow it.âRemember that thou art dust, and bethink thyself that thou hast a soul!âFear is salutary, but there is also a fear which we again shake off, and which we do not suffer to warn us.âThe loss of earthly things gives such trouble and for the loss of heavenly goods men will laugh!âA Christian should not so mourn, but should smite his breast alike in prosperity and in adversity.
Ezekiel 27:32. Michael and Tyre.âWho is as thou? This it is proper to say only of God in reference to glory. In respect to nothingness, on the other hand, one of us is as another.âMournful times should be times of repentance.âThe holy sense of the nil mirari.
Ezekiel 27:33. Our striving should be to become rich in the knowledge of the truth, and to make rich in regard to such knowledge should be our purpose in life.
Ezekiel 27:34. The end of earthly things, their scale, value, and true estimation.âAll this world is nothing; how surely must there be what is something!âBut faith cries out of the depths to God.âThe glory of the children of God, and the worldâs glory.âFormerly and now, two resting-points for the consideration of Tyre.
Ezekiel 27:35-36. Fear and shame have their limit only at a throne, that is, where the king reigns, who represents us.ââSo one at length becomes an object of the worldâs mockery with his pride and his sinsâ (Tüb. B.).