Ezekiel 28:2 — text, Greek, lexicon

Ezekiel 28:2Ezek.28.2

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart [is] lifted up, and thou hast said, I [am] a God, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou [art] a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

KJV

Hebrew original

בֶּן אָדָ֡ם אֱמֹר֩ לִ/נְגִ֨יד צֹ֜ר כֹּֽה אָמַ֣ר אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהֹוִ֗ה יַ֣עַן גָּבַ֤הּ לִבְּ/ךָ֙ וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֵ֣ל אָ֔נִי מוֹשַׁ֧ב אֱלֹהִ֛ים יָשַׁ֖בְתִּי בְּ/לֵ֣ב יַמִּ֑ים וְ/אַתָּ֤ה אָדָם֙ וְֽ/לֹא אֵ֔ל וַ/תִּתֵּ֥ן לִבְּ/ךָ֖ כְּ/לֵ֥ב אֱלֹהִֽים

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Fils de l'homme, dis au prince de Tyr: Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel: Ton coeur s'est élevé, et tu as dit: Je suis Dieu, Je suis assis sur le siège de Dieu, au sein des mers! Toi, tu es homme et non Dieu, Et tu prends ta volonté pour la volonté de Dieu.

KJV

Pericope

Ezekiel 28:1–55 verses

Patristic reading

Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
oasts of that which is contrary to God's glory---thus it is said in the person of the king of Tyre ( Ezech. 28:2 ): "Thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God"---or contrary to the love of our neighbor, as when a man while boasting of himself breaks out into invectives…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
stance when one glories in something false that is opposed to the reverence we owe God, according to Ezech. 28:2, "Thy heart is lifted up, and Thou hast said: I am God," and 1 Cor. 4:7, "What hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, a…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
us suos de Libano ligna succidere. Denique apud Ezechielem gloriatur et dicit: In cathedra Dei sedi (Ezech. XXVIII, 2) . Vide ergo ne per elationem de cathedra justitiae efficiaris cathedra pestilentiae et ferculum scandali, et per te vel exempla, vel sermo malus ad multorum pern…

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