Tyre a most noble maritime citie shalbe destroyed, by the king of Babylon, because they reioyce at the desolation of Ierusalem. 15. At the sight wherof manie shal be astonied.
1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:Ed avvenne, che l'undecimo anno, il primo giorno del mese, il Signore parlommi, dicendo:AND it came to passe in the eleuenth yeare, the first of the moneth, the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:Et factum est in undecimo anno, prima mensis: factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens: 2Son of man, because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the people are broken, she is turned to me: I shall be filled, now she is laid waste.Figliuolo dell'uomo, perchè Tiro ha detto di Gerusalemme: Bene sta: sono spezzate le porte dei popoli: tutti verranno a me, io mi empirò, ella è deserta.Sonne of man for that Tyre hath sayd of Ierusalem: Ah the gates of the peoples are broken, she is turned to me: I shal be filled, she is desert.Fili hominis, pro eo quod dixit Tyrus de Jerusalem: / Euge, confractæ sunt portæ populorum, / conversa est ad me: / implebor; deserta est: 3Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.Per questo così dice il Signore Dio: Ecco che io vengo contro di te, o Tiro, e manderò sopra di te molte genti, come flutti del mare in tempesta.Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Behold I vpon thee ô Tyre, and I wil make manie nations come vp to thee, as the sea riseth vp swelling.propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus: / Ecce ego super te, Tyre, / et ascendere faciam ad te gentes multas, / sicut ascendit mare fluctuans. 4And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.E abbatteranno le mura di Tiro, e distruggeranno le sue torri, e io ne raderò fin la polvere, e la ridurrò un tersissimo sasso.And they shal dissipate the walles of Tyre, and shal destroy the towers therof: and I wil scrape her dust from her, & wil make her as a most cleare rocke.Et dissipabunt muros Tyri, / et destruent turres ejus: / et radam pulverem ejus de ea, / et dabo eam in limpidissimam petram. 5She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.Ella sarà in mezzo al mare un sito da asciugarvi le reti, perchè io ho parlato, dice il Signore Dio: ella sarà preda alle genti.The drying of nettes shal be in the middes of the sea, because I haue spoken, saith our Lord God: and she shal be for a spoile to the Gentils.Siccatio sagenarum erit in medio maris, / quia ego locutus sum, ait Dominus Deus: / et erit in direptionem gentibus.
6Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain by the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.Le figlie ancora di lei, che sono nella campagna, periranno di spada; e conosceranno, che io sono il Signore.Her daughters also that be in the field, shal be slaine by the sword: and they shal know that I am the Lord.Filiæ quoque ejus quæ sunt in agro, / gladio interficientur: / et scient quia ego Dominus. 7For thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, the king of kings, from the north, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and companies, and much people.Perocché queste cose dice il Signore Dio: Ecco che io da settentrione condurrò a Tiro Nabuchodonosor re di Babilonia, re dei regi, con cavalli, e cocchi, e cavalieri, e turba grande di popolo.Because thus saith our Lord God: Behold I wil bring to Tyre Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon from the North, the king of kinges with horses, and chariotes, and horsemen, and multitude, and a great people.Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: / Ecce ego adducam ad Tyrum / Nabuchodonosor regem Babylonis ab aquilone, / regem regum, / cum equis, et curribus, et equitibus, / et cœtu, populoque magno. 8Thy daughters that are in the field, he shall kill with the sword: and he shall compass thee with forts, and shall cast up a mount round about: and he shall lift up the buckler against thee.Le tue figlie, che sono nella campagna, ei le ucciderà di spada, e te circonderà di fortini, e ammasserà terra all'intorno, e alzerà lo scudo contro di te:Thy daughters that are in the field, he shal kil with the sword: and he shal compasse thee with munitions, and shal cast vp a mount round about: and he shal lift vp the buckler against thee.Filias tuas quæ sunt in agro, gladio interficiet, / et circumdabit te munitionibus, / et comportabit aggerem in gyro, / et elevabit contra te clypeum: 9And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.E disporrà le vigne, e gli arieti contro le tue muraglie, e le tue torri distruggerà colle sue macchine da guerra.And he shal dispose ordinances, and engins against thy walles, & shal destroy thy towers with his armour.et vineas et arietes temperabit in muros tuos, / et turres tuas destruet in armatura sua. 10By reason of the multitude of his horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and wheels, and chariots, when they shall go in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed.Alla inondazione de' suoi cavalli tu sarai ricoperta di polvere: al romorio de' cavalieri, e de' carri, e de' cocchi si scuoteran le tue mura, quand'egli per le tue porte entrerà come si entra in una città presa per forza.With the inundation of his horses, the dust of them shal couer thee: at the sound of the horsemen, and wheeles, and chariotes thy walles shal be moued, when he shal goe in at thy gates, as by the entrance of a citie destroyed.Inundatione equorum ejus operiet te pulvis eorum: / a sonitu equitum, et rotarum, et curruum, movebuntur muri tui, / cum ingressus fuerit portas tuas quasi per introitum urbis dissipatæ.
11With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets, thy people he shall kill with the sword, and thy famous statues shall fall to the ground.Le piazze tue tutte saran pestate dall'unghie de' suoi cavalli, metterà a fil di spada il tuo popolo, e le tue insigni statue anderanno per terra.With the hoofes of his horses he shal tread downe al thy streetes: thy people he shal kil with the sword, and thy noble statues shal fal to the ground.Ungulis equorum suorum conculcabit omnes plateas tuas: / populum tuum gladio cædet, / et statuæ tuæ nobiles in terram corruent. 12They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.Daranno il sacco alle tue ricchezze, prederanno i tuoi fondachi, e distruggeranno le tue muraglie, e diroccherano le tue case magnifiche, e getteranno in mezzo alle acque i tuoi pietrami, il legname, e la tua polvere.They shal waste thy riches, they shal spoile thy merchandise: and they shal destroy thy walles, and shal ouerthrow thy goodlie houses: and thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust they shal put in the middes of the waters.Vastabunt opes tuas, / diripient negotiationes tuas, / et destruent muros tuos, / et domos tuas præclaras subvertent: / et lapides tuos, et ligna tua, et pulverem tuum / in medio aquarum ponent. 13And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.E farò, che più non si sentano i tuoi cantici, e il suono delle tue cetre più non si udirà.And I wil make the multitude of thy songues to cease, and the sound of thy harpes shal be heard no more.Et quiescere faciam multitudinem canticorum tuorum: / et sonitus cithararum tuarum non audietur amplius. 14And I will make thee like a naked rock, thou shalt be a drying place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.E ti renderò un tersissimo sasso, e sarai un luogo da asciugarvi le reti, e non sarai più edificata, perchè io ho parlato, dice il Signore Dio.And I wil make thee as a most cleare rocke, drying of nettes shalt thou be, neither shalt thou be built anie more: because I haue spoken, saith our Lord God.Et dabo te in limpidissimam petram, / siccatio sagenarum eris, / nec ædificaberis ultra, / quia ego locutus sum, ait Dominus Deus. 15Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee?Queste cose dice il Signore Dio a Tiro: Al fracasso di tua rovina, e al gemito di coloro, che sono uccisi nella strage, che in te si farà, non sarann' elleno smosse le isole?Thus saith our Lord God to Tyre: Why, shal not the ilands be moued at the sound of thy ruine, & the groning of thy slaine, when they shal be killed in the middes of thee?Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Tyro: / Numquid non a sonitu ruinæ tuæ, / et gemitu interfectorum tuorum, / cum occisi fuerint in medio tui, / commovebuntur insulæ ?
16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones: and take off their robes, and cast away their broidered garments, and be clothed with astonishment: they shall sit on the ground, and with amazement shall wonder at thy sudden fall.I principi tutti del mare scenderanno da' loro troni, e si terranno i loro manti, e getteranno le variegate lor vestimenta, e di stupore si cuopriranno; sederanno per terra, e attoniti di tua repentina caduta, saran fuori di loro stessi.And al the princes of the sea shal goe downe from their seates: and take of their roabes, and cast away their brodered garments, & be clothed with astonishment, sitte on the earth, and being astonied meruel at thy sudden fal.Et descendent de sedibus suis omnes principes maris, / et auferent exuvias suas, / et vestimenta sua varia abjicient, / et induentur stupore: / in terra sedebunt, / et attoniti super repentino casu tuo admirabuntur: 17And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?E deplorando il tuo caso diranno a te: Come mai se' caduta, o abitatrice del mare, città gloriosa, che fosti potente in mare co' tuoi abitatori, che eran temuti da tutti?And taking vpon thee a lamentation, they shal say to thee: How hast thou perished that dwellest in the sea, ô noble citie, which hast bene strong in the sea with thine inhabitants, whom al did feare?et assumentes super te lamentum, dicent tibi: / Quomodo peristi, quæ habitas in mari, urbs inclyta, / quæ fuisti fortis in mari cum habitatoribus tuis, / quos formidabant universi ? 18Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror: and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee.Saranno ora piene di spavento le navi nel giorno di tua rovina, e le isole del mare saranno afflitte, veggendo, che nissuno più esce da te.Now shal the shippes be astonied in the day of thy feare: and the ilands in the sea shal be trubled, for that none cometh forth out of thee.Nunc stupebunt naves in die pavoris tui, / et turbabuntur insulæ in mari, / eo quod nullus egrediatur ex te. 19For thus saith the Lord God: When I shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited: and shall bring the deep upon thee, and many waters shall cover thee:Imperocché queste cose dice il Signore Dio: Quand'io ti avrò fatta città desolata come le città, che non sono abitate, ed avrò mandato un diluvio sopra di te, e le grandi acque ti avran ricoperta,Because thus saith our Lord God: When I shal make thee a desolate citie as the cities that are not inhabited: and shal bring vpon thee the depth, and manie waters shal couer thee:Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: / Cum dedero te urbem desolatam, / sicut civitates quæ non habitantur; / et adduxero super te abyssum, / et operuerint te aquæ multæ;
20And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,E quando io ti avrò gettata laggiù al popolo eterno con quelli, che scendono nel sepolcro, e ti avrò collocata nel più profondo della terra con quei, che scendono nel sepolcro, divenuta tu simile alle solitudini antiche, onde non sii abitata: e quando io avrò renduta la gloria alla terra de' vivi,and shal plucke thee downe with those, that descend into the lake to the euerlasting people, and shal place thee in the lowest ground as old desolations, with them that are brought downe into the lake, that thou be not inhabited: moreouer when I shal geue glorie in the land of the liuing,et detraxero te cum his qui descendunt in lacum / ad populum sempiternum; / et collocavero te in terra novissima sicut solitudines veteres, / cum his qui deducuntur in lacum, / ut non habiteris; / porro cum dedero gloriam in terra viventium: 21I will bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, and if thou be sought for, thou shalt not be found any more for ever, saith the Lord God.Io ti ridurrò al niente, e più non sarai, e nissuno cercandoti ti troverà più, dice il Signore Dio.I wil bring thee to nothing, and thou shalt not be, & being sought for, thou shalt not be found anie more for euer, saith our Lord God.in nihilum redigam te, et non eris: / et requisita non invenieris ultra in sempiternum, / dicit Dominus Deus.
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Haydock
Year of the prophet's captivity. (Haydock)
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Gates: places of resort and commerce. The Jews came to Jerusalem frequently from all parts, which increased her beauty and trade. New Tyre expects that more will come to her.
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Calmet
Up. Nabuchodonosor besieged the city for thirteen years. The profane historians read by St. Jerome took no notice of this; but Josephus quotes several. (Antiquities 10:11., and contra Apion i.) (Calmet)
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Dust. She shall be demolished, and the rubbish thrown into the sea, to make a road by which New Tyre in the island might be attacked, ver. 12. (Haydock)
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Sea. St. Jerome explains this of New Tyre; Marsham of the Old. To reconcile the different texts, we only need to suppose that both cities were connected by a road thrown up in the sea by Hiram, and repaired by Nabuchodonosor with great labour, (chap. 29:18.) after it had been destroyed by the inhabitants of New Tyre, when they saw the old city on the continent fall a prey. (St. Jerome) (Calmet)
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Menochius
Kings: Nabuchodonosor (4 Kings 25:28.) or Alexander [the Great], who took Tyre. (Menochius)
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Daughters. Many towns were subject to Tyre: almost all Phoenicia acknowledged her dominion, as well as (Calmet) the seas to which her fleets went, ver. 15. (Selden, Mare 1:6.; Curtius iv.)
Worthington
These smaller cities shall fall, and the town shall be of no service except to dry nets. (Worthington)
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Engines. Literally, "vines." (Haydock)
Menochius
A covert was thus made for the soldiers, (Veget. 4:15.) when they approached the walls. (Menochius)
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Calmet
Destroyed. Old Tyre was taken by storm. It is doubtful whether it was pillaged, Ezechiel 29:18. (Calmet)
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Curtius iv
Statues. The citizens chained the golden statue of Apollo to the altar of Hercules, for fear of its leaving them, when Alexander [the Great] attacked the town. (Curtius iv.)
Josephus
Hiram placed a pillar of gold in the temple of Hercules. (Josephus, contra Apion i.)
Haydock
Herodotus (II. 44.) saw another also of emerald stone, (smaragdon) which illuminated the temple in the night. On such the Tyrians might depend; though some render, "the substance or guard of thy strength," denoting the soldiers (Calmet) and towers. (Haydock)
The gods were treated like the people, and their precious ornaments plundered.
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More, for seventy years, Isaias 23:15. The people returned at the same time as the Jews. (The year of the world 3468.) Soon after, Zacharias (Zacharias 9.) speaks of Tyre as then subsisting. It was very strong in Alexander's time, (who took it with difficulty, as Antigonus did eighteen years later) and had a very extensive commerce when St. Jerome wrote. But all this must be understood of New Tyre. The old city never regained much splendour. (Calmet)
It is still in ruins. A modern traveller was struck with the completion of this prophecy, beholding a few miserable fishermen drying their nets on the spot!
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Sea: colonies, or tributary to Tyre, ver. 8. (Haydock)
Some pretend that these cities were attacked by the conquerors, for manifesting their grief. See Josephus, Antiquities x.; Pineda, etc.
But we shall not here follow conjectures.
Calmet
Astonishment. Hebrew, "troubles," or mourning. (Calmet)
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Dwellest in. Hebrew, "of the seas." Protestants, "seafaring men," (Haydock) being near the sea, or thence deriving thy riches.
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Because. Hebrew, "at thy departure." (Calmet)
St. Jerome
Septuagint, "into captivity." (St. Jerome)
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Waters; great armies, (ver. 3.) or when thou art in the regions below, Job 26:5. (Calmet)
Worthington
Tyre was humbled for her pride, but restored after seventy years, Isaias xxiii. Our Saviour retired into those parts, Matthew 15:21. (Worthington)
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Living, assigned to Israel, (chap. 32:24.; Calmet) where holy people adore the true God, and shall rise to life eternal. (Menochius)
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For ever: for a long time, (Theodoret) not at all in thy ancient glory. (Haydock)
The city subsisted after the days of Nabuchodonosor and of Alexander [the Great], (Calmet) ver. 14.
Haydock
But the ancient city was reduced to a mere nothing. (Haydock)
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Yeares are stil counted from the transmigration of Ioachin, as ch. 1. 8 20. 24. v. 1. & 29. v. 1. 17.
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Tyre which is a most frequented sea towne, shal be made desolate and to no vse but to hang nettes therin to drie.
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Lesse cities and townes perteyning to Tyre shal likewise be destroyed.
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As Tyre was exalted in pride, so it was brought to great ruine, yet was it restored, after seuentie yeares according to Isaias prophecie, ch. 23 v. 15. And our Sauiour retired sometimes into the quarters of Tyre and Sidon. Mat. 15. v. 21.
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1. Undecimo anno — a captivitate Joachin, qui fuit quoque annus 11 regni Sedeciæ, quo anno a Chaldæis expugnata et eversa est Jerusalem, qui rursus fuit annus 18 Nabuchodonosoris. Ergo illo anno necdum erat obsessa Tyrus. Nam, vers. 3, ait: «Ascendere faciam ad te gentes multas;» et vers. 7: «Adducam ad Tyrum Nabuchodonosorem.» Falluntur ergo, qui eam obsessam volunt anno 7 Nabuchodonosoris. Idem patebit cap. XXIX, vers. 17. Prima die mensis, — scilicet quinti, quando Tyrus jam accipere intra 20 dies potuerat nuntium, de Jerusalem expugnata 9 die mensis quarti præcedentis, ut habetur IV Reg. XXV, 1. Ex circumstantiis ergo temporis recte conjicit R. David, Prado et alii, quintum mensem hic notari. Itaque Tyrus, gaudens de excidio Jerusalem, dixit:
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2. CONFRACTÆ SUNT PORTÆ POPULORUM, — id est confractæ sunt portæ Jerusalem, ad quam omni ex parte gentes conveniunt quasi ad mercaturæ, et religionis celeberrimum emporium. Hinc eam per portas denotat. Unde Vatablus et Maldonatus vertunt et explicant, q. d. Confracta est urbs portarum, vel urbs, quæ erat porta populorum. Urbem enim vocat portas, eo quod undique portas haberet, per quas circumquaque populi omnes ad eam confluebant. Aliter quoque Maldonatus, q. d. Urbs portarum, id est urbs ex qua omnes populi portam aliquam suam denominant. Solent enim minores urbes ex majoribus portas, quibus ad eas itur, appellare, ut in multis Galliæ urbibus aliqua porta Parisiensis vocatur. Conversa est (scilicet illa populi frequentia et negotiatio, a Jerusalem) ad me — Tyrum. IMPLEBOR — opibus et mercibus, quia vastata est Jerusalem, q. d. Ejus evacuatio erit mea impletio; ejus vastitas erit mea celebritas; ejus ignominia erit mea gloria. Moraliter, intuere hic mundi inopiam, conditionem et praxim: non ornat hos, quin spoliet illos: si quem opibus cumulat, alium premit egestate: non potest impleri hic, quin evacuetur ille; atque ita facit, ut unus alteri invideat, ejusque bonis inhiet. Ut sol dum unum hemisphærium sua luce illustrat, alteri tenebras offundit; atque uti in haustro dum una situla attollitur, altera deprimitur: ita in mundo nemo attolli potest et inclarescere, nisi alii deprimantur et obfuscentur, ait H. Pintus. E contrario Deus dives est in omnes. Unde de justo, qui in Deo habitans ditatur, ait Psaltes Psalm. CXI: «Gloria et divitiæ in domo ejus: et justitia ejus manet in sæculum sæculi.» Et Psalm. XXXVI: «Spera in Domino, et fac bonitatem: et inhabita terram, et pasceris in divitiis ejus.» et hortos construendos eo comportaverant, quam Deus dicit evertendam, imo radendam, ut rupes nuda relinquatur, qualis erat antequam urbs construeretur. Unde sequitur: «Dabo eam in limpidissimam petram,» hoc est, faciam ut in Tyro sola relinquatur limpidissima; Septuaginta, nitidissima, rupes, in qua constructa est (unde hebraice Tyrus dicitur צר tsor, id est petra) sitque tanta Tyri solitudo, ut in ea piscatores sagenas suas madefactas extendant et exsiccent. Ita Theodoretus. Hoc est, quod subdit: «Siccatio sagenarum erit,» Tyrus. Nulla ergo urbs, nullus mercator, nullus princeps glorietur suo robore, suis opibus, suis civibus, suis clientelis; licet enim iis abundet quasi Tyrus, et quasi muro aquis, tamen si Deum offendat, facile ab eo omnibus spoliabitur, et in siccam limpidamque petram redigetur.
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3. Super te. — Vatablus, contra te, supple, veniam, vel virgam meam et gladium vibrabo. MARE FLUCTUANS. — Significat Chaldæorum multitudinem, tumultum, fragorem, per fluctus Tyro, mari adjacenti, notissimos. Copias ergo Chaldæorum vocat fluctus, quia erant maximæ, plurimæ et sævissimæ. Sic et Jeremias, cap. XLVI, 9, copias Ægypti, et cap. LI, 42, copias Cyri vocat fluctus.
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4. ET RADAM PULVEREM EJUS DE EA. — Est hyperbole, q. d. Tyrum evertam, et eradam usque ad fundamenta, faciam ut ne pulvis quidem in ea remaneat. Erat enim Tyrus exstructa in rupe, in medio mari. Incolæ vero terram ad fabricandum,
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6. FILIÆ QUOQUE EJUS. — Hoc est Sidon, et aliæ urbes et vici Tyro quasi metropoli subjecti. Hæ enim ab Hebræis vocantur filiæ, sicut ipsa metropolis vocatur mater.
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7. Regem regum. — Ita vocat Nabuchodonosorem, qui multos reges habebat subjectos. Unde Megasthenes apud Josephum, X Antiq. XIII, contendit Nabuchodonosorem fortitudine et rerum gestarum magnitudine superasse Herculem. De quo plura Daniel II, 37. Alii per regem regum intelligunt Alexandrum Magnum, qui post Nabuchodonosorem, anno 243, Tyrum expugnavit. Quem Paulus Orosius vocat magnum miseriarum gurgitem, et totius Orientis atrocissimum turbinem. Nota: Putant multi Tyrum a Nabuchodonosore esse expugnatam paulo post Jerusalem, scilicet anno 23 Nabuchodonosoris, cum ipse Tyrum obsedisset tres annos cum dimidio, teste Philostrato apud Josephum. Unde Isaiæ XXIII, 17, dicitur post 70 annos Tyrus reædificanda, scilicet cum Jerusalem, a Cyro: sed falluntur; nam 13 annis fuit obsessa Tyrus, et capta anno 35 Nabuchodonosoris, uti ostendam cap. XXIX, 17.
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8. Elevabit contra te clypeum, — ut eo contra tua tela se protegat, cum te invadet; vel, q. d. Sublatis consertisque clypeis milites contra te testudinem de more facient, per quam in muros tuos inscendant urbem invasuri. Testudo enim erat continuata clypeorum series a militibus subjectis curvata in formam animalis quod testudo vocatur. Unde Livius: «Ipse scalas ferri ad muros ab omni parte muri jussit, ac testudine ad portas successit;» «testudine,» id est continuata clypeorum crate super capita. Idem, lib. IV De Bello Maced.: «Sublatis deinde supra capita scutis, continuatisque ita inter se, ut non modo ad cæcos ictus, sed ne ad inserendum quidem ex propinquo telum, loci quidquam esset, testudine facta subibant.»
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9. VINEAS. — Erant quasi magni corbes ex vimine (hinc vocantur vineæ, quasi vimineæ) quibus obsidentes se tegebant, et ex iis tuti penetrabant ad murorum fundamenta subruenda. Ita Vegetius, lib. IV, cap. XV. Aliter Vatablus vertit, scilicet, tormentum feriendi. Hebræum enim מחא macha significat delere, evertere. Hinc מחי mechi significat tormentum evertens muros. ET ARIETES. — Aries priscis bombardas et tormenta ænea non habentibus, erat trabs armata ferro instar arietis, quæ impulsu multorum militum mænia percutiebat, nec ulla turris tam valida erat, aut murus, qui licet primos arietis ictus sustinuisset, assiduos vinceret, ait Josephus, III Belli, IX. Vide arietis formam apud Lipsium, lib. De Militia Rom. Septuaginta vertunt, δόρατα, id est lanceas; R. Salomon, balistas, quæ lapides in muros ejaculantur.
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10. INUNDATIONE EQUORUM, — id est, ut Septuaginta, multitudine equorum operiet te pulvis eorum, q. d. Tam multi equites Chaldæi te invadent, tantumque pulveris ungulis suis excitabunt, ut tota pulvere tegi et obnubilari videaris. Sic ait Isaias, cap. LX, vers. 6: «Inundatio camelorum operiet te.» A sonitu (præ sonitu) Equitum. — Vix credat, nisi expertus, quantus sit fragor et terror equitum, urbe vi capta discurrentium, tum ut forum, plateas, vicos locaque omnia refugii occupent; tum ut milites et incolas ne fuga evadant, comprehendant; tum ut resistere volentes percellant. Vidi ego, et audivi hæc in Belgio Trajecti ad Mosam degens, cum ea urbs ab Hispanis vi caperetur. Sane videbar mihi videre et audire fragorem et terrorem, qui erit in ultimo mundi die.
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11. STATUÆ TUÆ NOBILES (id est trophæa tua, vel imagines clarorum virorum) IN TERRAM CORRUENT. — Ita Vatablus. Hæ enim hebraice vocantur מצבת mattsebot, id est statuæ. Tales sunt columnæ, pyramides et arcus triumphales, quales hic Romæ videmus: nimirum columna Trajani 120 pedum altitudinis, et tanta crassitie, ut interius per cochleam ab imo in summum ascendatur, in qua victoriæ omnes Trajani exsculptæ sunt. Item columna Antonini, pyramides Ægyptiæ ante templum S. Petri, ante basilicam Lateranensem, et ante ecclesiam S. Mariæ Majorem. Item arcus Titi et Vespasiani de devicta Judæa, arcus Septimi Severi, ad radices Capitolii; arcus Constantini de devicto Maxentio. Aliter Prado: per mattsebot enim accipit idola quæ Tyrii tam anxie custodiebant, ne hostili carmine avocati eorum dii, aut indignati discederent, ut vinculis ea annecterent. Erant hæc simulacra Herculis et Apollinis, teste Curtio, lib. IV De Vita Alexandri, et Plutarcho, problem. 61. Septuaginta vertunt, substantiam fortitudinis tuæ; et R. David, turres fortitudinis tuæ.
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13. ET QUIESCERE FACIAM MULTITUDINEM CANTICORUM TUORUM, — quibus tu, o Tyre mercatrix, quasi meretrix, mercatores ad te pellicis. Vide dicta Isaiæ XXIII, 15 et 16.
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14. NEC ÆDIFICABERIS ULTRA. — Dices: Isaiæ XXIII, 17, dicitur Tyrus instauranda post 70 annos. Respondet S. Hieronymus, instauratam fuisse Tyrum in urbem, sed non in regnum; nam Tyrus deinceps subfuit Chaldæis, Græcis, Romanis; secundo, respondet Scholiastes, cives Tyri omnes pene fuisse deletos, ac proinde postea aliam fuisse quasi Tyrum, quæ ab alia hominum natione, aliis legibus et moribus, imo, ut aliqui volunt, alio loco instaurata sit; tertio et plane, Hebræum עוד od, id est amplius, significat tempus jubilæi, id est sæculum 50 annorum (ut patet Exodi XXI, 6) intra quod Tyrus non est ædificata, sed post annos 70. Ita Theodoretus. Vide dicta Isaiæ XXIII, 15.
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15. A SONITU RUINÆ. — Est hyperbole, q. d. Sicut, turre ruente, omnia vicina commoventur: ita, Tyro ruente, vicinæ insulæ, id est insulani, ad famam et nuntium vastationis Tyri commoti sunt, id est commovebuntur pavore et admiratione.
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16. DESCENDENT DE SEDIBUS SUIS, — ut sedeant in terra more lugentium. PRINCIPES MARIS, — id est vicinarum insularum, quæ in mari sunt æque ac Tyrus. Exuvias suas. — Hebraice מעיל ילם meilehem, id est, pallia sua; Septuaginta, coronas et diademata sua. ATTONITI SUPER REPENTINO CASU TUO. — Repentini enim et improvisi casus acerbiores sunt. Hinc Adrianus Imperator annulum gestabat, quem aiebat fuisse Drusi Germanici, cui insculptum erat: «Illis gravis est fortuna, quibus est repentina.» Et Seneca: «Gravius, ait, nocet quodcumque inexpertum accidit: melius est præcavere quam cavere.» Hoc est quod ait S. Augustinus lib. De Singular. Clericor.: «Ubicumque fuerit providentia, frustrantur universa contraria: ubi autem providentia negligitur, omnia contraria dominantur.» Si ergo sapis, utere consilio, quod est oculus futurorum, eoque futura dispice et prospice.
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17. ET ASSUMENTES SUPER TE LAMENTUM. — Simile lamentum Babyloni excisæ inducit Isaias cap. XIV, 10. Tropologice, hoc lamentum anima excelsa, quæ in peccatum mortale prolabitur, recte adaptat S. Hieronymus.
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18. IN DIE PAVORIS TUI. — Septuaginta, in die ruinæ tuæ.
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19. ABYSSUM. — Chaldæus, exercitum immensum, ut operiant te aquæ multæ, id est multi hostes et populi, ac consequenter multæ ærumnæ, gravesque et profundæ clades. Sic ait Psaltes Psalm. XLI, 8: «Abyssus abyssum invocat, in voce cataractarum tuarum,» id est una afflictio alteram secum trahit, dum tu, Domine, cataractas tuas aperis, et pluis in nos calamitates.
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20. Qui descendunt in lacum, — id est in foveam et sepulcrum. AD POPULUM SEMPITERNUM. — Hebraice, ad populum sæculi, id est ad populum jam olim a multis sæculis mortuum, qui dormit somnum sempiternum, ut ait Jeremias cap. LI, 57, quos proinde vocat «mortuos sempiternos,» Thren. III, 6; secundo, q. d. Cum descendentibus in lacum, id est in infernum, ad æternum ignem destinatis constituam te, in sempiternum arsuram. Ita S. Hieronymus et R. Salomon. IN TERRA NOVISSIMA. — Hebraice תחתיות tachtiot, id est inferiori, scilicet in sepulcro et inferno. SICUT SOLITUDINES VETERES, — id est similem ruinis urbium antiquis, quarum vix ullum cernitur vestigium. Ita Maldonatus. CUM DEDERO GLORIAM IN TERRA VIVENTIUM, — cum restituero felicitatem et gloriam pristinam Hierosolymæ, ex quo omnes meam potentiam glorificabunt. Unde Chaldæus vertit: Gaudium in terra Israel dabo. Vocatur Jerusalem terra viventium, primo, quod in ea coleretur Deus verus et vivus, qui sui cultores sibi similes facit viventes, uti idola mortua faciunt stupidos. Secundo, quia in Jerusalem sepulti erant fideles et justi, post modicum tempus resurrecturi in vitam æternam, Isaiæ XXVI, 20; Apoc. VI, 9. Tertio, q. d. Tu, Tyre, insultasti Hierosolymæ, quod jam esset terra mortis et mortuorum: ecce faciam ut tu descendas in lacum, et sis terra mortuorum: Jerusalem vero sit terra viventium, cum reflorescet hominum viventium numero et gloria. Ita R. David, Maldonatus, Prado et alii. Alii explicant, q. d. Cum dedero gloriam in terra viventium, id est, cum in tui punitione et excidio gloriam meæ vindictæ et potentiæ ubique terrarum ostendero. Hic commentarium suum cum vita finit noster Prado, transiitque ad terram viventium.
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21. IN NIHILUM REDIGAM TE, — id est tuam gloriam, imperium, opes, delicias, palatia, arces, etc., ut amplius non sint, nec in sua forma et essentia existant, et quoad eam quasi annihilentur. Nam quoad materiam primam, certum est eam non annihilari. Res ergo dicuntur annihilari, cum earum species, forma et decor perit, et quasi ad materiam primam et ad rude chaos, ex quo prodierunt, redigantur. Unde explicans subdit: «Et non eris, et requisita non invenieris ultra in sempiternum.» Hic finis Tyri inclytæ. Hic finis regum, regnorum, opum, honorum, pomparum mundi. Sic Apocal. cap. XVII, de regno Antichristi et mundi, dicitur: «Bestia erat, et non est;» de Deo vero ejusque regno dicitur Apocal. I, 4: «Qui est, qui erat, et qui venturus est.» Et Daniel VII, 27: «Cujus regnum, regnum sempiternum est, et omnes reges servient ei et obedient.» Hoc est ergo elogium, laus et nomen regis et cujusvis hominis defuncti: «Fuit, et non est.» Dei vero et Beatorum: «Fuit, est, et erit in perpetuum.» Sic transit gloria mundi; at durat gloria cœli. Exstat epitaphium cujusdam regis Franciæ, aptum et patheticum hac de re, quod citat Delrio, Adag. 8, estque tale: Risi, ploro. Fui, non sum. Studui, requiesco. Lusi, non ludo. Cecini, nec mutio. Pavi corpus, alo vermes. Vigilavi, dormio. Dixi Salve, dico Vale. Rapui, rapior. Superavi, Vincor. Certavi, pacificor. Jure ego vixi. Jure igitur morior: non obsto, obstare nequirem. Terra fui quondam, rursum sum terra. Nihil sum. Terra caduca vale, vermes salvete, recumbo. Hoc erit et epitaphium cujusque nostrum. O insipiens qui caduca, et mox casura spernit, et æterna jugiter mansura ambit! Audi epitaphium Romæ captæ, et vastatæ a Genserico rege Gothorum, sub Honorio Imperatore, anno Domini 410; quod inaudiens et ingemiscens S. Hieronymus in Bethlehem, ita orditur Proœmium lib. III Comment. in Ezechielem: «Nihil longum est quod finem habet, et omnis retro temporum series transacta non prodest, nisi forte bonorum operum viaticum præparaverit, quæ semper ad futura, ad æterna respiciunt, et nullis terminis coarctantur. Vera sententia: omnia orta occidunt, et aucta senescunt. Et alibi: Nihil est enim opere et manu factum, quod non conficiat et consumat vetustas. Quis crederet, ut totius orbis exstructa victoriis Roma corrueret, ut ipsa suis populis, et mater fieret, et sepulcrum? ut tota Orientis, Ægypti, Africæ littora, olim dominatricis urbis servorum et ancillarum numero complerentur? ut quotidie sancta Bethlehem, nobiles quondam utriusque sexus atque omnibus divitiis affluentes susciperet mendicantes? Quibus quoniam opem ferre non possumus, condolemus, et lacrymas lacrymis jungimus: occupatique sancti operis studio, dum sine gemitu confluentes videre non possu- mus, explanationes in Ezechielem, et pene omnia verba in opera vertere; et non dicere sancta, sed facere.»
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… Ezechiele riceve sempre nella ricorrenza della n. la parola di Jahweh (Ez. 26, 1; 29, 17; 31, 1; 33, 1).
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MAŞŞEBHĀH. - Cíppo, grossa pietra eretta (dal verbo nāṣab « drizzare »; Settanta: στήλη, λίθος σκοπός, ὑπόστασις, Ez. 26, 11; Volgata: titulus, lapis, statuae). …
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