Teks -- Ezekiel 28:17 (NET)

28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

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Wesley: Eze 28:17 - Corrupted

Depraved, or lost thy wisdom.

Wesley: Eze 28:17 - Behold thee

That thou mayst be a spectacle, and warning to them.

JFB: Eze 28:17 - brightness

Thy splendor.

JFB: Eze 28:17 - lay thee before kings

As an example of God's wrath against presumptuous pride.

Defender: Eze 28:17 - corrupted thy wisdom

Satan's incomparable wisdom became corrupt when he deceived himself into thinking he could become God. He has attempted to deceive men and women ever since, persuading them (as he did Eve) that they also could be "as gods" (Gen 3:5), but he had deceived himself most of all. His corrupted wisdom somehow persuaded him that he and God were the same type of being and, therefore, that he could displace God by leading a revolt of the angels under his command. This plan could be rationalized only by his assuming that both he and God had by some unknown process evolved out of the primeval waters which had been the environment of his first consciousness, when God created him. This is suggested not only from Gen 1:2, but in all the most ancient pagan cosmogonies (Sumeria, Egypt), for which Satan must have been primarily responsible. Thus, Satan's corrupted wisdom devised the primeval system of pantheistic evolutionism with which he has been corrupting and deceiving the world ever since.

Defender: Eze 28:17 - to the ground

When he rebelled against God in the heavenly Eden (sometime after the six days of creation, for everything in heaven and earth was still "very good" at that point in time - Genesis 1:31-2:3), God "cast him to the ground" - that is, "to the earth" - where He allowed him to test Adam and Eve in their earthly Eden, to see whether they also would rebel against God's Word, and seek to be gods themselves."

TSK: Eze 28:17 - heart // thou hast // I will cast // I will lay

heart : Eze 28:2, Eze 28:5, Eze 16:14, Eze 16:15, Eze 31:10; Pro 11:2, Pro 16:18; Luk 14:11; Jam 4:6

thou hast : Isa 19:11-13; Jer 8:9; Rom 1:22-25; 1Co 1:19-21

I will cast : Job 40:11, Job 40:12; Psa 73:18, Psa 147:6

I will lay : Eze 16:41, Eze 23:48, Eze 32:10; Isa 14:9-11

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Poole: Eze 28:17 - Thine heart was lifted up // Thy beauty // Converted thy wisdom // I will cast thee to the ground // Lay thee before kings // Who is God, that I should obey him? That they may behold thee

Thine heart was lifted up: see Eze 28:2,5 .

Thy beauty: see Eze 28:12 .

Converted thy wisdom depraved or lost thy wisdom, by reflecting and gazing on thy own glory, state, wealth, and magnificence, and hast forgotten thou art a man; thou exaltest thyself above man, above thy neighbour kings.

I will cast thee to the ground I will bring down thy pride, dethrone thee, and make thee sit in the dust; sully and darken all thy brightness.

Lay thee before kings or, set thee before men of thy quality, who are, as thou, apt to forget men, themselves, and God, as he who, though he said not, I am God, yet, atheist-like, asked,

Who is God, that I should obey him? That they may behold thee or, that thou mayst be a spectacle, an example and warning to them; or, that they see thee in chains, or an abused captive, and despise thee.

Haydock: Eze 28:17 - Beauty

Beauty. Riches have corrupted thy heart.

Gill: Eze 28:17 - Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty // thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness // I will cast thee to the ground // and I will lay thee before kings

Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,.... Riches, wealth, power, and authority; see Eze 28:5, as the pope of Rome is, because of his dignity, the pomp and splendour of the Roman church, and the gaudy appearance it makes:

thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; outward lustre and glory, which dazzled his eyes so that he could not see things in a true light; but neglecting the word of God, and setting up his own infallibility, corrupted his doctrine and worship, and became foolish, stupid, and sottish:

I will cast thee to the ground; from the throne and pinnacle of honour, to the lowest state and condition:

and I will lay thee before kings: prostrate at the feet of them, who heretofore has set his feet on the necks of them; or he shall fall before them, and be destroyed by them, when they shall hate the whore, and make her desolate, and burn her flesh with fire, Rev 17:16, that they may behold thee; with contempt and disdain, and as an instance and example of divine vengeance.