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Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 28:15

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Ezekiel28:15

15 Thou wast perfect in thy waies from the day thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

I think the Prophet continues his Ironie: The Prince of Tyrus would be a God, yes. Now God is perfect in all his wayes, or works: And thou, O Prince, wert so too; wert thou, and from thy Original?

But remember what a God is he, that hath a beginning that was created, that at last was found full of Iniquity? And this reproof, and taunt leads us to look with the Prophet from the proud claim of this Prince to his great miscarriages. If any else will think all these things in the 14th and 15th verses to be asserters of God's bounty to this Prince, and of his great magnificence and state in Hyperboles and allusions: Nothing I have said shall contradict them, for they have their Liberty as I have mine, to think what seems most like the truth.

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