15<\/strong>. The sin and fall of the prince. The terms “the day when thou vast created” are very unsuitable if applied to the cherub. The sons of God existed before creation, Job 38:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n Verse 15<\/span>. Thou<\/B><\/I> wast <\/B>perfect in thy w<\/B><\/I>ays<\/I>] The irony seems still to be kept up. Thou hast been like the angels, like Moses, like the cherubs, like Adam, like God, till thy iniquity was found out.<\/P> <\/p>\n I think the prophet continues his irony: The prince of Tyre would be a god. Yes. Now God is perfect in all his ways 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 Gods 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. <\/P> <\/p>\n 15. perfect<\/B>prosperous[GROTIUS], and having nodefect. So Hiram was a sample of the Tyrian monarch in his early daysof wisdom and prosperity (1Ki 5:7<\/span>,&c.). <\/P> till iniquity . . . inthee<\/B>Like the primeval man thou hast fallen by abusing God’sgifts, and so hast provoked God’s wrath.<\/P><\/p>\n Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created<\/strong>,…. From the time that Tyre became a kingdom, or this king was set over it, everything was wisely conducted, and all things happily succeeded; so when the church of Rome was first formed in the times of the apostles, it was laid on a good foundation; it was set up according to the rule of the word; its bishop or pastor was one of a sound judgment, a good life and conversation, and so continued In succession for a considerable time; these held the true faith and doctrine of Christ, and kept it incorrupt, and lived holy lives:<\/p>\n till iniquity was found in thee<\/strong>; pride, blasphemy against God, and contempt of his people, as well as violence and deceit; all this was found in the king of Tyre in later times: so in the church of Rome, when the man of sin was revealed, there were pride, haughtiness, and ambition, found in it; blasphemy against God and Christ, and the saints: false doctrine, false worship, superstition, and idolatry.<\/p>\n (15) Till iniquity was found in thee.<\/strong>This and the following verse renew still more clearly the comparison with Adam. The king was altogether prosperous until his sin became manifest; then, when his heart was corrupted by his prosperity (Eze. 28:16<\/span>), he was cast out for ever, like Adam from his paradise.<\/p>\n ‘You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created until unrighteousness was found in you.’<\/p>\n The theme of Eden continues. The king probably depicting his own continuing perfection. But Ezekiel brings him down to earth and likens him to Adam and connects him with the fall, and then illustrates it from reality. The same phrase could of course been said of Adam, perfect in his ways until unrighteousness was found in him. So the fall of the king and of Tyre, which their ways reveal, is likened to that of Adam. They share in the fall of mankind.<\/p>\n Eze 28:15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.<\/p>\n Ver. 15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways<\/strong> ] As the evil angels also were; but now it is otherwise. Heaven spued out them in the very first act of their sin, and soon after they were created. Look thou therefore to speed accordingly, since iniquity is found in thee. Potentes potenter torquebuntur.<\/p>\n perfect . . . created. Referring to the period before Satan’s fall. See App-19. <\/p>\n iniquity = perversity. Hebrew ‘aval, App-44. <\/p>\n perfect: Eze 28:3-6, Eze 28:12, Eze 27:3, Eze 27:4 <\/p>\n till iniquity: Eze 28:17, Eze 28:18, Gen 1:26, Gen 1:27, Gen 1:31, Gen 6:5, Gen 6:6, Pro 14:34, Ecc 7:29, Isa 14:12, Lam 5:16, Rom 7:9, 2Pe 2:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Eze 21:30 – I will Eze 28:7 – defile Eze 28:13 – thou wast<\/p>\n Eze 28:15. This verse is explained in the comments on verse 12.<\/p>\n 28:15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast {h} created, till iniquity was found in thee.<\/p>\n (h) Which was when I first called you to this dignity.<\/p>\n The king had conducted himself blamelessly from his earliest days until he lifted himself up in pride.<\/p>\n Some interpreters believed that the Old Testament speaks of the fall of Satan in Isa 14:12-17 as well as in this passage. [Note: E.g., Paul P. Enns, Ezekiel, p. 131, and W. A. Criswell, Expository Sermons on the Book of Ezekiel, p. 149.] <\/span> Cooper charted the similarities between these two passages. [Note: Cooper, pp. 269-70.] <\/span> I think that neither Eze 28:11-19 nor Isaiah 14 contains information about Satan before the Fall. The main reason for this conclusion, among others, is that in both cases a king (of Tyre or Babylon) is the object of the prophecy. A literal interpretation of these "kings" is possible and, therefore, preferable.<\/p>\n Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 15. The sin and fall of the prince. The terms “the day when thou vast created” are very unsuitable if applied to the cherub. The sons of God existed before creation, Job 38:7. 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