John Trapp on Ezekiel 28:2

Ver. 2. Say unto the Prince of Tyre] Princes muſt be told their own, as well as others. It was partly by flattery that this Prince was ſo high-flown. His glory, wealth and wit alſo had ſo blown him up, that he forgat himſelf to be a man. Tabael Joſephus, out of Beroſus, calleth him: Diod[illegible: 1 letter]rus Siculus Ith[illegible: 1 letter]baal, others Ethbaal; A moſt proud and preſumptuous perſon he was, and a type of the devil, who is the King of all the children of pride, Job 41.34. Here he holdeth himſelf to be wiſer then Daniel, ver. 3. yea to be the ſum and perfection of all wiſdom, ver. 12. to excell the high-Prieſt in all his ornaments, Os humeroſque Deo ſimilis, ver. 13. yea to be above Adam, ib. above the Cherubims, ver. 14. laſtly to be God himſelf, and to ſit in his feat, ver. 2. O Lucifer out-devild! And yet as there were many Marii in one Caeſar, ſo by nature, there are many Ethbaals in the beſt of us: for as in water face anſwereth to face, ſo doth the heart of a man to a man, Prov. 27.19. Julius Caeſar ſuffered Altars and Temples to be dedicated unto him, as to a god: and what wonder, when as his flatterers told him that the freckles in his face were like the ſtars in the firmament?Sueton. Valladerius told Pope Paul the fifth (and he beleeved it) that he was a god, that he lived familiarly with the Godhead, that he heard predeſtination it ſelf whiſpering to him, that he had a place to ſit in council with the Divine Trinity, &c. Prodigious blaſphemy! Is not this that man of ſin, that Merum ſcelus ſpoken of by Paul, 2 Theſ. 2.4? (ſee more of this there) Was it not he that made Dandalus the Venetian Embaſſadour roul under his table, and as a dog eat cruſts there? and that ſuffered the Sicilian Embaſſadours to uſe theſe words unto him, Domine Deus papa miſerere noſtrum. O Lord God the Pope, have mercy upon us. And again, O Lamb of God that takeſt away the ſins of the world, grant us thy peace!

In the midſt of the ſeas] Where none can come at me. Yes Nebuchadnezzar could, and did, though after thirteen years ſiege, as Joſephus writeth: a hard tug and hot ſervice he had of it; but yet he did the deed: as did afterwards alſo Alexander the great, who never held any thing unfeiſible.