Ezekiel 28:5
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic,.... Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" {i}; through great skill in trade and commerce:
hast thou increased thy riches; to a very great degree, a prodigious bulk; so antichrist has done, especially through trafficking with the souls of men, which is one part of his merchandise, as it was of Tyre,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches; which are apt to puff up and make men highminded, and swell them with a vain opinion of themselves, and to make haughty, insolent, and scornful, in their behaviour to others; thus elated with worldly grandeur and riches, the whore of Rome is represented as proud, vain, and haughty, Revelation 18:7.
{i} Ktlkrb "in negotione tua", V. L. Pagninus, Starckius; "in mercatura tua", Junius & Tremellius.