They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
We had done with Tyrus in the foregoing chapter, but now the prince of Tyrus is to be singled out from the rest. Here is something to be said to him by himself, a message to him from God, which the prophet must send him, whether he will hear or whether he will forbear. I. He must tell him of his pride.
Commenting on Ezekiel 28:1-10
They shall bring thee down to the pit,.... Or, "to corruption" (k); to the grave, the pit of corruption and destruction; so antichrist shall go into perdition, into the bottomless pit from whence he came, Rev 17:8, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas; that die in a sea fight, whose carcasses are thrown overboard, and devoured by fishes.
the pit--that is, the bottom of the sea; the image being that of one conquered in a sea-fight. the deaths--plural, as various kinds of deaths are meant (Jer 16:4). of them . . . slain--literally, "pierced through." Such deaths as those pierced with many wounds die.