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plots, and they will tear up from the foundations the precincts made by them for you, and they will deliver you to oblivion, as to some kind of death, having received authority "to tread on snakes and scorpions, and on all your power." And through these events you will learn that you have in vain persuaded men that you are a God. You will suffer these things, because you have had an uncircumcised mind, and have not circumcised the grievous passion of your arrogance. 11-13. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre. And say to him: Thus says Adonai the Lord: You are a seal of likeness, full of wisdom, and a crown of beauty. And you were in the delight of the paradise of God; you have bound upon yourself every precious stone, carnelian, and topaz, and emerald, and jacinth, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, 81.1093 and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, and you have filled your treasuries and your storehouses in you with gold, from the day you were created. Someone might take these things, forcing the sense, to apply also to the visible prince of Tyre; but properly and truly it befits the sinful demon who was at work in him. Therefore, taking these things as applying to the prince of Tyre, the visible one, we will understand it thus: "You are a seal of likeness." For man was formed according to the divine image, full of wisdom; for he is also rational, and honored with reason, and a crown of beauty; for he is better than all the irrational creatures, both those on land and birds, and those in the water and amphibians. "And you were in the delight of the paradise of God." For you derive your lineage from the first father, who, immediately after being formed, was placed in the paradise of delight, to cultivate and keep it. And fittingly he also calls Jerusalem, the city called holy and divine, a paradise, having plants of God's prophecy and high priesthood, which provide life and salvation. For there was long ago a friendship between the king of the Tyrians and the king of the Israelites, and there was also some intercourse between them; and this is easy to learn from the books of Kings. But the phrase, "you have bound upon yourself every precious stone," is clear when understood literally, and taken as applying to a king. For I adorned you with countless good things, and brought to you all sorts of materials from everywhere, from which you made diadems and crowns, brooches and belts, and rings, and filled your treasuries, yet you continually thought the opposite, because of the abundance and splendor of these things. But concerning the devil, we will not understand these things in this way, but the phrase, "You are a seal of likeness," we will take as referring to the dominion and authority formerly given to him. For the divine Apostle says: "according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience." So that it is clear, that he was formerly entrusted with the administration of this air, but having fallen from his leadership on account of arrogance, he displays his own activity in those who disbelieve the word of the preaching. "Full of wisdom and a crown of beauty, and you were in the delight of paradise." Through these words he alludes to his former virtue. "For God saw," it says, "all that he had made, and behold, it was very good." And this one also was among the things that were made, not yet having undergone the change for the worse by his own will. And through the aforementioned stones, it signifies his manifold wisdom and knowledge. For the high priest, wearing on his breast 81.1096 the oracle of judgment, on which were these same stones, would enter into the Holy of Holies; and the breast is, as it were, a treasury of the heart, and a place of safekeeping. And all that follows does not befit the visible prince of Tyre, but the invisible one. 14. For you were prepared, it says, with the Cherub, anointed by God who tabernacles. For with those holy and venerable powers, you were deemed worthy of both creation and anointing; but here he calls anointing the sanctification, which is supplied by the divine Spirit to the incorporeal and holy powers. "And I placed you on the holy mountain of God; you were in the midst of fiery stones." Holy mountain of God

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ἐπιβουλὰς, καὶ τὰ ὑπ' αὐ τῶν σοι γενόμενα ἐκ βάθρων ἀνασπάσουσι τεμένη, καί σε οἷόν τινι θανάτῳ παραδώσουσι τῇ λήθῃ, λαβόντες ἐξουσίαν "πατεῖν ἐπάνω ὄφεων καὶ σκορ πίων, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσάν σου δύναμιν." Καὶ δι' αὐτῶν μαθήσῃ τῶν πραγμάτων, ὡς μάτην ἀνέπεισας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ὅτι Θεὸς εἶ. Ταῦτα δὲ πείσῃ, ἐπειδὴ ἀπερίτμητον ἔσχες τὸ φρόνημα, καὶ τὸ χαλεπὸν τῆς ἀλαζονείας σου μὴ περιέτεμες πάθος. ιαʹ-ιγʹ. Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς μὲ, λέ γων· Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, λάβε θρῆνον ἐπὶ τὸν ἄρ χοντα Τύρου. Καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτῷ· Τάδε λέγει Ἀδω ναῒ Κύριος· Σὺ εἶ ἀποσφράγισμα ὁμοιώσεως, πλήρης σοφίας, καὶ στέφανος κάλλους. Καὶ ἐν τῇ τρυφῇ τοῦ παραδείσου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐγενήθης πάντα λίθον τίμιον ἐνδέδεσαι, σάρδιον, καὶ τοπάζιον, καὶ σμάραγδον, καὶ ὑάκινθον, καὶ ἄνθρακα, καὶ σάπφειρον, καὶ ἴασπιν, καὶ ἀργύ 81.1093 ριον, καὶ χρυσίον, καὶ λιγύριον, καὶ ἀχάτην, καὶ ἀμέθυστον, καὶ χρυσόλιθον, βηρύλλιον, καὶ ὀνύ χιον, καὶ χρυσοῦ ἐνέπλησας τοὺς θησαυρούς σου, καὶ τὰς ἀποθήκας σου ἐν σοὶ, ἀφ' ἧς ἡμέρας ἐκτίσθης. Ταῦτα βιασάμενος ἄν τις λάβοι καὶ εἰς τὸν ὁρώμενον ἄρχοντα Τύρου· κυρίως δὲ καὶ ἀληθῶς ἁρμόττει τῷ ἐν ἐκείνῳ ἐνεργήσαντι ἀλιτη ρίῳ δαίμονι· εἰς μὲν οὖν τὸν ἄρχοντα Τύρου, τὸν ὁρώμενον, ταῦτα λαμβάνοντες, οὕτω νοήσομεν· "Σὺ εἶ ἀποσφράγισμα ὁμοιώσεως." Κατ' εἰκόνα γὰρ θείαν ἐπλάσθη ὁ ἄνθρωπος, πλήρης σοφίας· καὶ λογικὸς γὰρ, καὶ λόγῳ τετιμημένος, καὶ στέφανος κάλλους· πάντων γὰρ κρείττων τῶν ἀλόγων, καὶ πεζῶν, καὶ πτηνῶν, ἐνύδρων τε καὶ ἀμφιβίων. "Καὶ ἐν τῇ τρυφῇ τοῦ παραδείσου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐγενή θης." Ἐκ γὰρ τοῦ προπάτορος κατάγεις τὸ γένος, ὃς εὐθὺς διαπλασθεὶς ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τῆς τρυφῆς ἐτέθη, ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ φυλάττειν. Εἰκότως δὲ καὶ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ἱερὰν καὶ θείαν ὀνομαζομέ νην πόλιν, παράδεισον καλεῖ, καὶ Θεοῦ προφη τείας, καὶ ἀρχιερωσύνης ἔχουσαν φυτὰ, ζωῆς καὶ σωτηρίας παρεκτικά. Φιλία δὲ πάλαι ὑπῆρχε τῷ Τυρίων καὶ τῷ τῶν Ἰσραηλιτῶν βασιλεῖ, καὶ ἦν τις αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐπιμιξία πρὸς ἀλλήλους· καὶ τοῦτο ἐκ τῶν Βασιλειῶν ῥᾴδιον καταμαθεῖν. Τὸ δέ· "Πάντα λίθον τίμιον ἐνδέδεσαι," δῆλόν ἐστι κατὰ τὸ γράμμα νοούμενον, καὶ ἐπὶ βασιλέως λαμβανόμενον. Μυ ρίοις γάρ σε ἀγαθοῖς κατεκόσμησα, καὶ ὕλας σοι παντοδαπὰς πάντοθεν προσενήνοχα, ἐξ ὧν διαδήματα καὶ στεφάνους, πόρπας τε καὶ ζώνας, καὶ δακτυ λίους κατασκευάσας, καὶ τὰ ταμιεῖα ἐμπλήσας, φρο νῶν τὰ ἐναντία διετέλεσας, ἐπὶ τῇ τούτων περιου σίᾳ τε καὶ εὐπρεπείᾳ. Εἰς δὲ τὸν διάβολον οὐχ οὕτω ταῦτα νοήσομεν, ἀλλὰ τό· "Σὺ εἶ ἀποσφρά γισμα ὁμοιώσεως," εἰς τὴν δοθεῖσαν αὐτῷ πάλαι ἀρχὴν καὶ ἐξουσίαν ληψόμεθα. Φησὶ γὰρ ὁ θεῖος Ἀπόστολος· "Κατὰ τὸν ἄρχοντα τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος, τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ νῦν ἐνεργοῦντος ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς ἀπειθείας." Ὡς εἶναι δῆλον, ὅτι πάλαι τὴν τοῦδε τοῦ ἀέρος οἰκονομίαν ἐπεπίστευτο, δι' ἀλαζο νείαν δὲ τῆς ἡγεμονίας ἐκπεσὼν, ἐν τοῖς ἀπιστοῦσι τῷ τοῦ κηρύγματος λόγῳ τὴν οἰκείαν ἐνέργειαν ἐπι δείκνυται. "Πλήρης σοφίας καὶ στέφανος κάλλους, καὶ ἐν τῇ τρυφῇ τοῦ παραδείσου ἐγενήθης." Τὴν προτέραν αὐτοῦ ἀρετὴν διὰ τούτων αἰνίττεται. "Εἶδε γὰρ, φησὶν, ὁ Θεὸς πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησε, καὶ ἰδοὺ καλὰ λίαν." Εἷς δὲ καὶ οὗτος τῶν γενομένων ὑπῆρ χεν, οὐδέπω δεξάμενος τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς γνώμης ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω μεταβολήν. ∆ιὰ δὲ τῶν εἰρημένων λίθων, τὴν παντοδαπὴν αὐτοῦ σοφίαν καὶ ἐπιστήμην σημαίνει. Καὶ γὰρ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς τὸ λόγιον τῆς κρίσεως, ὃ τού τους αὐτοὺς περιέκειτο τοὺς λίθους, ἐπὶ τοῦ στήθους 81.1096 φέρων, εἰς τὰ Ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων εἰσῄει· τὸ δὲ στῆ θος οἷόν τι ταμεῖόν ἐστι τῆς καρδίας, καὶ φυλακτή ριον. Καὶ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα δὲ πάντα, οὐ τῷ ὁρωμένῳ ἄρχοντι τῆς Τύρου, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἀοράτῳ ἁρμόττει. ιδʹ. Κατεσκευάσθης γὰρ, φησὶ, μετὰ τοῦ Χε ροὺβ, κεχρισμένος παρὰ Θεοῦ τοῦ κατασκη νοῦντος. Σὺν γὰρ ταῖς ἁγίαις ἐκείναις καὶ σεβα σμίαις δυνάμεσι, καὶ τῆς δημιουργίας, καὶ τῆς χρί σεως ἠξιώθης· χρίσιν δὲ ἐνταῦθα τὸν ἁγιασμὸν κα λεῖ, τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου Πνεύματος ταῖς ἀσωμάτοις καὶ ἁγίαις δυνάμεσι χορηγούμενον. "Καὶ ἔθηκά σε ἐν ὄρει ἁγίῳ Θεοῦ· ἐγενήθης ἐν μέσῳ λίθων πυ ρίνων." Ὄρος ἅγιον Θεοῦ