CHAP. XXVIII.
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; The judgments of God on the prince of Tyre, for his impious there is no secret that they can hide from
pride, 1-10. A lamentation over him, as fallen from his height of grandeur through iniquity, 11-19. A prophecy against Zidon, 20-23. The restoration of Israel foretold, 24
-26.
TH THE word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
Be- 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches.
seat of God,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GoD; cause thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the d in the * midst of the seas; a man, and not God, though heart as the heart of God:
yet thou art
thou set thine
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord Gon;
g Dan. 1:20. 2:48. h1 Kings 4:29-32. 10:3. Job 15:8. Ps. 25:14. Dan. 2:22, 27,28,47. 5:12.
i 29:3. Deut. 8:17,18. Prov. 18:11. 23:4,5. Ec. 9:11. Hab. 1:16. Zech. 9:2-4. † Heb. the greatness of thy wisdom. Prov. 26:12. Is. 5:
21. Rom. 12:16.
k 27:12, &c. Is. 23:3,8. Hos. 12:7,8. Jam. 4:13,14.
12. 16:49. Deut. 6:11,12. 8:13, 14. 2 Chr. 25:19. 32:23-25. Job 31:24,25. Ps. 52:7. 62:10. Prov. 30:9. Is. 10:9-14. Dan. 4:30,37. Hos. 13:6. Luke 12: 16-21. 1 Tim. 6:17.
are relaxed; their policy degenerates into lust of the eye, or the pride of life;" but should craft, and their counsels into mercenary soph-use them in "doing good to all men, especially istry.
V. 26-36.
to the household of faith," and in promoting the Christian religion. Above all, we should be careful to "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness," and to do and use every thing in subserviency to the salvation of our souls. Then our riches will never be taken from us; and when we shall be no more on earth, we shall go to possess an incorruptible and unchangeable inheritance in heaven.
When nations have filled up the measure of their sins, the Lord in anger gives up their ruers to be infatuated; and they engage in rash projects and destructive wars: and thus prosperous states are reduced and ruined; their former grandeur only serves to enhance the greatness of their fall: many spectators lament and are astonished at their ruin; and others triumph in it, and rise to prosperity, whilst they are no more. 'Trade is a fluctuating 'thing: it passed from Tyre to Alexandria, 'from Alexandria to Venice, from Venice to 'Antwerp, from Antwerp to Amsterdam and 'London; the English rivalling the Dutch, as 'the French are now rivalling both.... It be-ities; and under his government the Tyrians
NOTES.
CHAP. XXVIII. V. 2-5. Ethbaal, or Ithobalus, was the prince or king of Tyre, at the time when this prophecy was spoken, and when the city was taken by Nebuchadnezzar. He seems to have been a man of eminent abil
'hoves those, who are in possession of it, to for a time prospered exceedingly. But, being 'take the greatest care that they do not lose it. lifted up with the most excessive ve pride, he ar'... Liberty is a friend to that, as that is a friend rogated divine honors to himself, as many 'to liberty. But the greatest enemy to both is vain-glorious monarchs have done. His sove'licentiousness, which tramples upon all law | reignty over the seas was so uncontrolled, and 'and lawful authority, encourages riots and tu-his authority was so firmly established, that 'mults, promotes drunkenness and debauche- he seemed to himself to reign as a god "in the
'ry, sticks at nothing to supply its extrava- midst of the seas;" and to be placed on the 'gance, practises every art of illicit gain, ruins throne of God, rather than on that of a man. 'credit, ruins trade, and will in the end ruin Yet was he a poor, frail, mortal man, and not 'liberty itself. Neither kingdoms nor common- God; though he affected to be absolute, inde'wealths, neither public companies nor pri-pendent, and honored as a deity. ( Marg . and 'vate persons, can long carry on a beneficial Marg . Marg. Ref . a-e. -Notes , 6-15. Ps . 82:6,7. tue, and what Dan . 4:28-33, 28-33, vv. 30,31. Acts 12:20-23, υυ.
22,23. 2 Thes . 2:3,4.)-Daniel, who was not at this time more than thirty-six years of age, being employed in the court of the king of
'flourishing ng trade without virtue, 'virtue teacheth, sobriety, industry, frugali'ty, modesty, honesty, punct honesty, punctuality, humanity, 'charity, the love of our country, and the fear 'of God. The prophets will inform us, how Babylon, had become exceedingly renowned 'the Tyrians lost it; and the like causes will for his wisdom, in all the concerns of govern'always produce the like effects.' Bp . New -ment, as well as in interpreting dreams, and lon . Whatever may be the case with the com-resolving difficult questions: but the king of munity, individuals may guard against these Tyre supposed himself to be wiser than Danevils in themselves: and their immortal inter-iel, and that no secret could be hid from him.
ests call them to it more forcibly, than any ( Marg . Ref . g, h.) He was perhaps a man of temporal motives can do. If we be poor, we learning, and understood many abstruse subshould learn to be contented with food and jects: or he had discovered the secret machiraiment; and having the needful provisions of nations of his enemies, which he ascribed to
Judah and Israel, we need not covet the su-his superior discernment, and supposed that
perfluities of Tyre. Those who engage in commerce should remember, that they are the servants of God; and learn to conduct their business, according to the precepts of his word, in submission to his providence, and with an aim to his glory. And those who possess wealth should remember, that they are his stewards, and must not waste his goods, in gratifying "the lust of the flesh, the
nothing could elude his penetration. But the chief use which he had made of his wisdoın had been to increase his revenues and treasures, by protecting the trade and wealth of his subjects. This he ascribed to his own wise counsels; and thus his riches tended in every way to enhance his pride and self-sufficiency. ( Marg . and Marg . Ref . i.-1.- Note , Is . 47:710.)
Because thou hast set thine heart as the Thus saith the Lord Gon, Thou sealest heart of God; up the sum; a full of wisdom, and perfect
7 Behold, therefore I will bring stran-in beauty. gers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no god, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die "the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it , saith the Lord God.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him,
V. 6-10. "Thou didst think in thine heart, that thou wast equal with God." Old Version . (John 5:18. Phil . 2:6.)-This haughty prince was become the rival of "the LORD of Hosts," and robbed him of his glory, who therefore resolved to resist and abase him. The Chaldeans were not numbered among the people who traded with the Tyrians, but were "strangers;" yet God had chosen them to execute his sentence against that city and her king. g. They were the most "terrible of the nations," and would oppose their victorious arms to Ithobalus's self-wise politics.
By besieging, and at length taking and destroying Tyre, they would tarnish and defile all his beauty and splendor: and they would bring him down to the grave, without any honor or ceremony; as those who are slain at sea are thrown overboard. And would he still boast, that "he was God," when in the hands of the executioners of the Lord's vengeance on him? ( Marg . and Marg .
Ref . m -t. x.) Certainly his death would prove the contrary: and as he would die out of God's covenant and under his wrath, and the death of the wicked, (which was meant by "the death of the uncircumcised,") he would perish miserably in every sense. ( Marg . Ref . u.) Thou shalt come to the same ill end, as befals 'the other enemies of God and of his truth.' Lowth .-Hiram, king of Tyre, was the friend of David and Solomon, and probably a pious person: ( Notes , 2 Sam. 5:11. 1 Kings 5:1.) yet his successors had joined the enemies of God,
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: d the workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee, in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth: and I have set thee so : thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, 1 till iniquity was found in thee. z 2-5. 27:3,4. Rom. 15:28. 2 d 26:13. Is. 14:11. 23:16. 30:32.
Cor.1:22.
a Prov. 21:30. Is. 10:13. Jer. 9:23. Luke 2:40. Acts 6:3. I Cor. 1:19,20. 3:19. Col. 1:9. 2:3. Jam. 3:13-18.
b 31:8,9. 36:35. Gen. 2:8. 3: 23,24. 13:10. Is. 51:3. Joel 2: 3. Rev. 2:7.
c 27:16,22. Gen. 2:11,12. Ex. 28:17-20. 39:10-21. Is. 54: 11,12. Rev. 17:4. 21:19,20. † Or, ruby .
Or, chrysolite. Or, chrysoprase.
e 15. 21:30.
f 16. Ex. 25:17-20. 30:26. 40:9.
g Ex. 9:16. Ps. 75:5-7. Is. 10: 6,15. 37:26,27. Dan. 2:37,38. 4:35. 5:18-23. John 11:51. Rom. 9:17.
h 2,16. 20:40. Is. 14:12-15.2 Thes. 2:4.
i 13,17. Rev. 18:16. k 3-6,12. 27:3,4.
117,18. Gen. 1:26,27,31. 6:5,6. Prov. 14:34. Is. 14:12. Lam. 5:16. 2 Pet. 2:4.
opinion of his own dignity, and his ostentation of magnificence, are described in very remarkable language. He vainly thought himself to be the sum of all excellency; that his abilities, personal accomplishment; accomplishments, authority, and splendor comprised the "fulness of wisdom and the perfection of beauty;" and that they were his by an unalienable tenure, securely sealed up among his treasures.
He thought his dignity as great, and his advantages as many, as those of Adam "in Eden the garden of God." His crown was formed, and his garments decorated, with abundance of precious stones: of these nine are mentioned, which were set in gold, and were the same as nine of those that were placed in the breast-plate of the high priest, with whom some think he meant to vie in this particular. ( Note , Ex . 28: 15-29, υυ . 17-20.) Tabrets, and other musical instruments, had been prepared for him with exquisite skill: either to celebrate his coronation, the day when he was "created" king; or his birth, and afterwards his birth-day as it annually returned.
Perhaps he had been anointed king, according to the custom in Israel: it was his office to cover or protect his people, and for this purpose God had raised him to his throne: but he forgot his dependence on him, deemed himself able to do it by his own power, and shone in his own eyes, as an angel in heaven, or as a deity. This refers to the cherubim that covered the mercy-seat, which were anointed with the holy ointment,
and Ithobalus especially would have his por-aleng with the ark of the covenant, &c. or to
tion among them.
those, who guarded the entrance of Eden, and kept every way the tree of life. ( Notes , Gen. 3: 22-24. Ex . 25:10-21. 30:22-33.)-In this conceit of his own excellency, and counting himself equal to the inhabitants of heaven, the holy mountain of God, he walked up and down,
V. 12-15. The prophet was next directed to conclude the prediction against Tyre with a lamentation, or poetical elegy, over this haughty monarch; which would be the more remarkable, as he was at that time at the height of pride and prosperity. Ithobalus's || surrounded and decorated with precious stones,
16 By the multitude of thy merchan-|| dise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: o therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I will destroy thee, PO covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
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, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic: * therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee; it shall devour thee; and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
m 27:12,&c. Is. 23:17,18. Hos. 12:7. Luke 19:45,46. John 2: 16. 1 Tim. 6:9,10.
n 8:17. Gen. 6:11. Am. 3:9. Mic. 2:2. 6:12. Hab. 2:8,17. Zeph. 1:9.
o Gen. 3:24. Lev. 18:24-28. Is. 22:19. 23:9. Mic. 2:10. 2 Pet. 2:4-6. Rev. 12:9.
1:22-25. 1 Cor. 1:19-21.
s Job 40:11,12. Ps. 73:18. 147:6. t 16:41. 23:48. 32:10. Is. 14:911.
0 2,13,14,16.
b 6:2. 25:2. 29:2.
с 27:8. 32:30. Gen. 10:15. Si don. Is. 23:2-4,12. Jer. 25: 22. 27-3. 47:4. Joel 3:4-8. Zech. 9:2.
x 5:4. Judg. 9:15,20. Am. 1:9, d 5:8. 21:3. 26:3. 29:3,10. 35:3. 10,14. 2:2,5. Rev. 18:8.
y Mal. 4:3. 2 Pet. 2:6.
z 27:35,36. Ps. 76:12. Is. 14: 16-19. Rev. 18:9,10,15-19. a 26:14,21. 27:36. Jer. 51:63, 64. Rev. 18:21.
* Heb. terrors.
sparkling like fire. Indeed the affairs of Tyre had been managed by him, with great prudence and success, from the beginning of his reign; till the detection of his iniquity brought down the wrath of God upon him, and then he was infatuated to his ruin. ( Marg . and Marg .
Ref .)-The expressions used, in this poetical description of the excessive pride of this monarch, seem to allude to the fall of angels, and to that of Adam in Paradise; and they intimated that his ruin would be owing to the same cause, and attended with similar effects to him. ( Notes , Is . 14:3-20.) He is likewise supposed to have been a type of the Roman antichrist, of whom similar things are spoken in the New Testament; and almost the whole of this description may be accommodated to that proud enemy of God and his truth.
But indeed the character, pretensions, and fall, of one man who has been intoxicated with power and pride, so resemble those of others of the same spirit, that it is not always easy to determine, whether the coincidence arises from this circumstance, or whether the one was intended to be a type of the other.
Thou wast perfect, &c. (15) 'An exact de'scription of the angelical purity in which the 'devil was created; and in which he continued, 'till being lifted up with pride, he fell from his 'first estate.' Lowth .
V. 16-19. The policy of the king of Tyre had employed such methods of extending its commerce, as led to great violence and oppression, and various transgressions of the divine law. And therefore, though he thought his city and throne sacred, as "the mountain of
38:3. 39:1. Jer. 21:13. 50:31. Nah. 1:6. 2:13. 3:5.
e 25. 39:13. Ex. 9:16. 14:4,17. 15:21. Lev. 10:3. 1 Sam. 17: 45-47. Ps. 9:16. 21:12,13. 83: 17,18. Is. 5:15,16, 37:20. Rev. 19:1,2,
f 20:41. 36:23. 38:23.
g 5:12. 38:22. Jer. 15:2. h 25:7,11,17. 26:6.
i Num. 33:55. Josh. 23:18. Judg. 2:3. Jer. 12:14. Mic. 7: 4. 2 Cor. 12:7.
k 23,26. 36:36-38. 39:28.
1 11:17. 20:41. 34:13. 36:24. 37:21. 39:27. Lev. 26:44,45. Deut. 30:3,4. Ps. 106:47. Is. 11:12. 27:12,13. Jer. 30:18. 31:8-10. 32:37. Hos. 1:11 Joel 3:7. Am. 9:14,15. Ob. 17-21. Mic. 7:11-14. Zeph. 3:19,20.
fane and abominable; he would destroy him from the midst of his ostentatious magnificence, as he had cast down the angels that sinned, from their glorious state in heaven; and he should no longer think himself the protecting deity of Tyre. Seeing "his heart was lifted up" by his endowments and prosperity, and "he had corrupted his wisdom," by employing it in base projects to increase his magnificence; the Lord would cast him to the ground, and render him a deplorable spectacle, and an instructive warning to other kings, who should behold his fall.
He had accounted his palaces to be "sanctuaries," or temples to his own divinity, in which he sat as in the seat of God: but he had defiled them by his crimes, and the iniquity allowed in his traffic; therefore they would be consumed with a fire kindled by his own folly; and he should perish with them amidst many spectators, for a terror and a warning to them, and should never be restored. ( Marg . and Marg . Ref . Notes , 26: 21.27:)-The infamous traffic of the papal antichrist, in the church of God and about holy things, will certainly expose him to similar or more terrible destruction. ( P.
O. Rev. 18:919.)
V. 21-23. Tyre was built by the inhab itants of Zidon, which was the more ancien but the less considerable city, and depended on Tyre. ( Marg . Ref . c.- Notes , Gen. 49:13. Josh . 19:24-31. Is . 23:2,4.) The Lord however was against Zidon also; and he determined to glorify his power, justice, and truth, in executing judgments on her, by pestilence and the sword; that his holy name might thereby
God," being consecrated by his own divinity; be known and had in honor. This seems to yet the Lord would cast him out of it, as pro-have been fulfilled by the Chaldeans.-'Zidon
'was afterwards utterly destroyed by Ochus, 'king of Persia.' Lowth . ( Marg . Ref . d-h.Notes, Jer. 47:4. Joel 3:3-8.)
V.24-26. These cities bordering on Israel, and peopled in great measure from the ancient inhabitants of Canaan, had been "thorns and briers" to them; had created them much trouble, and treated them with great contempt. ( Marg . Ref . i.- Notes , Num . 33:55, 56. Josh. 23:11-13.) But they were about to be finally deprived of their power to molest them. So that when the Lord should restore Israel to their own land, for the glory of his name among the nations; they would dwell in peace and prosperity, being delivered from their enemies, by the just judgments of God upon them. This was in part fulfilled, after the return of the Jews from captivity: but it is probable, that it will have a far more striking accomplishment, when they shall be converted to Christ, and gathered from their present dis persions. ( Marg . and Marg . Ref . Notes , 34:
perous than Daniel, or than Solomon: yet the inost illiterate and despised believer is far wiser than they, in the most important matters; for "the secret of the LORD is with them that fear him," which alone can lead to happiness temporal and eternal. Whereas all the wisdom in the world, is in fact insufficient to save men's bodies from the grave, or their souls from hell: it cannot secure their limbs from pain, or their hearts from anguish: and a fever or a blow may render the wisest man on earth an ideot, or a lunatic, to the end of his days. V. 11-26.
How vain are all talents, beauty, dignity, or magnificence! How little would it avail us if we could seal all worldly accomplishments and distinctions, "among our treasures!" Nay, were it possible to enter the garden of Eden, and to contemplate its beauties, and feast upon its fruits; or even to enter heaven, that holy mountain of God, and among his angels to behold the glories and hear the harmony of
23-31.36:20-27.37:24-26.39:23--29.)-The that blessed place; we could enjoy no solid last clause, and many others to the same effect, happiness, without a humble, holy, and spiritimply, that they shall know God and his per-ual mind. Should the brightest Cherub of fections by their own experience.
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS.
V. 1-10.
Seraph there, who has been "perfect since the day in which he was created," discover the least pride and iniquity, he must be "cast er was. So tha that all wisdom and prosperity, which elate the heart, or are corrupted in devising or compassing iniquity, will soon prove to be folly and misery: and all the brightness of earthly magnificence, magnificen and the vain joys of
Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen na-out as profane," even as Satan the first offend
ture, the essence of our apostacy, and the very poison which Satan's temptation infused into the hearts of our first parents, and throguh them into those of all their children. Every possession, endowment, or distinction, which the Lord confers upon us, serves to excite and give energy to this hateful propensity: and we are disposed to idolize the gifts, or to glory in them as if from ourselves; and to forget the Giver, to become his rivals, and to speak and act, as if we were independent of him, and sufficient to our own safety and happiness.
To such a tremendous excess has this disease sometimes arisen, that poor dying worms have fancied themselves deities; have demanded temples, sacrifices, and adoration; have dreamed, that they were able to save or to destroy; and have presumed to arrogate the style, and attempted to exercise the peculiar prerogatives, of the most High God!
But the mightiest and most accomplished monarch, whose heart is thus lifted up, and intoxicated by dignity and prosperity, may be assured, that God will resist and abase him: and what a wretch will he be proved at last, who, having been honored and flattered as more than human through life, dies in his sins, and has his eternal portion with the devil and his angels in the bottomless pit! 'Then, at least, the delusion will cease, and he will know himself to be a feeble and wretched, because a sinful man.
What then is that wisdom, of which so many boast, as if "no secret could be hid from them?" It may perhaps serve to amass riches, and other incentives to their worldly lusts: yet even in this respect both the exercise and the success of it depend on the providence of God. If in these things they were wiser and more pros-real good to fallen man. Happy therefore is
sensual, sensual, ungodly un mirth, mirth, will shortly be exchanged for "weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth;" except "godly sorrow, which worketh repentance unto salvation," "intervene.Spiritual pride, however, is of all most diabolical: and when men are puffed up with knowledge, gifts, or eminence in the church of God; when they ambitiously usurp authority, and arrogate to themselves the power over men's consciences, or presume to change the laws of God; when they mistake external pomp for "the beauty of holiness," and carnal policy for heavenly wisdom, and "gain for godliness," and shine as angels in their own esteem: then they peculiarly resemble Satan in heaven, when iniquity was first found in him; and are in danger of similar destruction to his, when he was cast down to hell.
Such men very often defile sacred places and functions by their iniquities, and their infamous traffic about spiritual things: and they may expect to perish by no common destruction, but to be made a warning to others not to copy their sacrilege, blasphemy, and presumption.
It is exceedingly difficult to possess any distinction, without being proud of it; or to conduct extensive and lucrative trade, without covetousness, oppression, or iniquity: indeed this can be learned no where, except in the school of Christ, and by the teaching of his Spirit.-In short, sin alone can ruin a holy creature: and only he "who taketh away sin," is able to do
in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, bset thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and d against all Egypt:
3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, e I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth
ered: I have given thee for meat to the
beasts of the field, and to the fowls of the heaven.
6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall m know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their
in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee,
& My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to
thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God;
stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee,
up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all
a 17. 1:2. 8:1. 20:1. 26:1. 40:1. f 32:2. Ps. 74:13,14. Is. 27:1. b 6:2. 20:46. 21:2. 25:2. 28:21.
c Jer. 44:30.
d 30:-32: Is. 18:19:1-17. 20: Jer. 9:25,26. 25:18,19. 43:813. 46:2-26. Joel 3:19. Zech. 14:18,19.
e 28:22. Ps. 76:7. Nah. 1:6.
51:9. Rev. 12:3,4,16,17. 13:2, 4,11. 16:13. 20:2.
g 9. 28:2. Deut. 8:17. Is. 10:13, 14. Dan. 4:30.
h 38:4.2 Kings 19:28. Job 41: 1,2. Is. 37:29. Am. 4:2.
i Hab. 1:14,15,
the true Christian, though poor, afflicted, and despised; though destitute of shining talents, and exposed to "p thorns and briers," ericking on and breeup ers," or terrible persecutions. of the Lord's indignation goes round, and he is glorified in executing judgments judgments on his proud and and prosperous enemies: he will dis- play his truth, power, and mercy, in the sal- vation and everlasting honor and felicity of his redeemed people. Let others then cele- brate the genius and learning of Greece, and the magnificence and riches of Tyre, Babylon, or Rome.
Let us celebrate the praises of Zion, the city of our God, of which glorious things are spoken by the Lord himself: let us seek no other honors or distinctions than those, which belong to all her citizens: ( Notes and P. O. Ps . 87:) and whatever else we remain ignorant of, let us seek the humbling, sancti- fying knowledge of God, and the enlarged ex- perience of his salvation. Then we shall be enabled to say, "The lines are fallen unto me in a pleasant place: yea, I have a goodly heritage."
NOTES.