John Trapp on Ezekiel 28:18

Ver. 18. Thou haſt defiled thy ſanctuaries] i. e. Thy kingly palaces, where thou art looked upon and honoured as a God (but a wretched one) and which for ſtatelineſſe may vye with my Sanctuary. Adde hereto, that as none might come into the Temple but Prieſts only: ſo none might come into the palace but confiding perſons: The Turkes at this day ſuffer no ſtranger to come into the preſence of their Emperour, but firſt they claſp him by the arms, under colour of doing him honour,Turk. Hiſt. 715. but indeed to bereave him of the uſe of his hands, leſt he ſhould offer him any violence.

Therefore will I bring forth a fire in the midſt of thee] Thou ſhalt periſh by thine own ſins, as a houſe is burnt by fire kindled within it ſelf.

And I will bring thee to aſhes] Which ſhall remain as a laſting monument of the divine diſpleaſure; as did the aſhes and cinders of Sodom: and Herodotus ſaith the ſame of the aſhes of Troy.