but the other cities of the Phrnnicie.n coast, his life after B.O. 710, in speaking of her as each of which bud its own king (Herod., non-existent. Till the Aaayria.n founded it for vii. 98; Btre.b., xvi. p. 754). Age.inst the them that dwell in the wilderness. There merohant city; re.ther, • against Canaa11. ia no "till" in the original. The clause is Phmnioia is mlled "Ce.ne.an," e.s Engle.nd separate an<l independent, not connected is often called '' Britain." So the " Byro• grammatically with the preceding. Nor Phcenioia.n wome.n '' of Mork vii. 26 is "a does it assert that the Assyrians "founded " wome.n of Cannon " in Matt. xv. 22. Babylon for any one, but only that they Ver, 12.-Re said. Jehove.h continues " established" it, or "appointed" it to be hie threatenings. The oppressed virgin, a habitation for "the bea8ts of the desert" daughter of Bidon-or rather, the oppressed (comp. eh. xiii. 21; xxxiv. 14; Jer. I. 39, t1irgin-daughter of Bidon-may be either etc.). The prophet views the Assyrians as Tyre, which, e.ccording to some, was built intending to reduce Babylon to ruins, and by fugitives from Zidon, or Phcenicia. gene- leave it we.ste and uninhabited. The towen rally, of which Zidon, e.s the "firstborn" thereof; i.e. the siege-towers requisite for (Gen. x. 15), was a sort of mother. l'ass reducing so strong e. city. They raised up; over to Chittim (comp. ver. 6). Chittim rather, they made bare (cf. Hab. iii. 9). (Cyprus) was a nearer refuge the.n Te.rshish, He brought it to ruin. "He" is " the e.nd fe.r more ee.sily ree.ched; but, on the Assyrian." The case of Babylon is ad- other hand, it was mnch less safe. Se.rgon duced to increase the alarm of Tyre, by and Eae.rhaddon both of them exercised reminding the inhabitants of what the As- dominion over it; and when Abdi-Milkut, syrians had done to a town greater and King of Sidon, fled there in the reign of the stronger than their own. The allusion ia latter, the Assyrian monarch pursued him, probably to certain severities of Sargon's oought him, and •• cut off his head" (G. in B.O. 7 JO, which, however, a.re rhetorically Smith, • Eponym Ca.non,' p. 137). Still, it exe.ggere.ted. It was never the policy of was so often sought by princes flying from the Assyria.as to depopulate or destroy Phmnici11 when attacked by Assyrie., that Babylon. CUDeiform scholars call it "the usual refuge Ver. 14.-Rowl, ye ships of Tarahish of the Phmnicie.n kings " (' Transactions of (comp. ver. 1). The ships that traded with Bibi. Archreology Society,' vol. iv. p. 86). Te.rshlsh, not those belonging to Ta.rshish, There also she.It thou have no rest. Cyprus are intended. Your strength is laid waste; submitted to Sargon (' Records of the Pe.st,' rather, your stronghold; i.e. 'J'yre itself. vol. vii. p. 26), and a.gain to Ese.rhaddon The elegy ends as it began, with n. state- (ibid., vol. viii. p. 108). It was included in ment of the be.re fact. Alexander's destruc- the dominions of Asshur-be.ni-pal (G. Smith, tion of the city was the final and complete 'History of Asshur-be.ni-pe.l,' pp. 31, 32). fulfilment of the prophecy. The captures After Nebuche.dnezze.r's conquest of Tyre, by Esa.rhaddon (G. Smith, 'Eponym it was annexed by Egypt (Herod., ii. 182), Ca.non,' pp. 139-142), by Asshur-ba.ni-pal on the conquest of which country by Cam- (ibid., pp. B4, 145), and by N ebuche.dnezzar, byses it became Persian. 'fhe Phmnicians were anticipations of the fine.I one, and had " no rest" there e.fter Assyria had once partial fulfilments of the prophecy. found her way to the island. Ver. 13.-llehold the land of the Chal- Vere. 15-18.-TY!IB's RESTORATION TO deana (comp. eh. xiii. 19; xlvii. 1, 5; xlviii. PROSPERITY AND CONVERSION TO JEHOVAH. 14, 20). Like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Isaiah After an interval, eisprcsscd by the symbolic knows the people as Che.ldee.ns (Kasdim), number of "aeventy years," Tyre is to rile the ce.pite.l as Babylon. Ke.ldi, in the in- from her ashes, and become once more a scriptions, is a rare word, and the ne.me of 11 not very important tribe. Yet Berosus p1·osperous state, resuming her former occu- uses the term to designate the whole nation. pation of a "merchant city," and o:nce more This people we.a not; rather, is not; i.e. "is making great gains, which she will devote no more a people"-" has ceased to exist." to the service of J ehova.h. St. J erorno Sargon conquered Babylon in B.o. 710, and thought that this prophecy had not been made himself king, ruling it, together with Assyria, until B.o. 705, when it rebelled and accomplished in his day. If so, it cannot recovered its independence. Sennacherib be said to have been e.ccomplished yet; reconquered it in n.o. 70!, and age.in in B.o, unless, indeed, Tyre may be regardeu "" 700, when he made his eldest son viceroy. representing the commercial spirit, which, ESBrhaddon ruled over both countries, as under Christianity, is not necessarily alien did Asshur-be.ni-pe.l. Though later (about B.o. 620-610) D1ibylon reasserted her inde- from religion, but shows itself sometimes pendence, e.nd became a great empire, yet altogether friendly to the Church, 1upplyin:; Isaiah was justified, at almost any period of we.ye e.nd means for ten thousand pbilan• THE DOOK OF THE PROPRET ISAIAH. [ea. xxm.1-18.
thropic and preiscworthy enterprises (vN. which the prophet prooeeds to quote in the IS). next verse. " Ver. 15.-Tyre llhall be, forgotten; i.e. Ver. 16.-Take an harp. Ha.riots In the . shall ~se !o. occupy men s thoughts, aa :a Ea.st, and indeed in the West also in anoi~nt factor m polih~s-shall pMs out of their times (Hor., • Epist.,' i. 14, 1. 25), were ooloul!\hons, o.ud oount for nothing." Seventy expected to be musicians. The harp and ye&n. •· F'?rty years" and "seventy yeo.rs" the guitar were their usunl instruments. 11.re t~e clne_f represente.tfres in Scripture Forgotten harlot. In addressing Tyro a\i of an mdefimte time. The week of creation a "harlot," the prophet docs not seem to seems to h!\ve gi\'Cn to seven its quaai- mean more than thnt her aims were or at i;acred ch!\raoter, which passed from the any rate had been, selfish and worldlt, such primary number to the corresponding deci- as sever between man and God. She had. mal one. The sacred use of "seventy" pursued we!\lth for the enjoyments thnt· it appears first in the "t:e,·enty elders" who brought her, not in order to make a. good accompanied Moses to the covcnant-feo.st on use of it. Hers had been the covetousness Sinai (Exod. :s:xiv. 9). After this," seventy" which is "iclolatry" (Col. iii. 5). 1alents are mcntione,I as the weight of the Ver. 17,-:-~e Lord will visit Tyre. In 1,ron~':. offerings for the tabernacle (Exod. me;OY, not lll Judgment (cf. Jer. xxvii. 22; xxx,·111. 29), and "seventy" shekels as the x:xu. 10). She shall turn to her hire· i e 0