weight of the silver bowls offered by the "to her commerce," to her former mode of heads of tribes when the tabernacle we.s set life. But with the difference noted in up (Numb. ni. 13-S5). The "indefinite" ver. 18. • use of "seventy" is most apparent in such Ver. 18.-Her merohanclise and her hire expressions as that of Gen. iv. 24, "If Ca.in shall be holiness to the Lord. There. is bhall be avenged sevenfold, surely Lamech nothing intrinsically wrong or debasing in seventy and sevenfold ; " and that of Matt. ~om~erce. Ri_ghtly pursued; ~1/-d. ·engaged x,·iii. 22, "I sa.y not unto thee, Until 1n with the view of devoting the profits ee1·en times: but, Until setientytimesseven." made in it to good and pious ends the colli.~ •• Seventy" seems also to be indefinite in mercio.l life may be as religiou~, and as E_~od. X\'. 2i; Numb. xxxiii. 9; Judg. i 7; acceptable to God a.s. any other. The world :s:tt. 13; 2 Sam. xxiv. I5 ; l King,i v. 15; has known many mcrchl!,b.ts who were Chris- 1 Chron. =i. 14, etc. It is absurd to count tians, in the highest sense of the worcl. the" seventy yenrs" of th~ present passage, Solo~on i1;1 his best days_ w3s 11 ,merchant us some do, from the aooess10n of N ebuchad- (I Kmgs ix. 27, 28; x. 22)," .but· one who n0zzar to the death of Nu.bonidus, for neither employed the wealth which. he derived from clid Tyre begin to be forgotten in the first commerce to the honour and' glory. of God: year of the one prince, nor did slie imme- It sha.11 not be treasured nor· laid up. The <liately recover herself on the death of the merchants sha.11 not lay it up in their own othez:. Aooording to the d~ys of one kin.g ; coffers, but expend it wisely and religiously. or, like the days of one ki,ag. The p0riod, It sha.11 be for them that dwell before the Lord; i.e. it shall· be applied to religious "hatever its length, should be to Tyre uses-to tho sustentation of ministers, the "~ike the days of o~e king;" i.e. unche,nging, relief of tire poor and necessitous among l\'1thout hope. Onentul kings prided them- God's people, and other siinililr purposes. eelves on maintaining an unaltered policy Such o.n employment .of the gains ma.de (of. 2 Kings xxv. 27; eh. xiv. 17). Shall se.notifies commerce, and· lliakes it a good Tyre aing u an h&tlot; littrelly, it shall be to Tyre as [in] the song of the ha.riot. A and a blessed thing'. pa.rticula.r song seems to be meant, pa.rt· of
HOMILETIOS. Ver. 9.-The fall _of Tfre a W(Jff'nin9 against pride in the 9loi-ies of civilization and art.. In destroyrng 'lyre, God, we are told, "purposed to stain the. :prld·e of all glory." .. The word trans:~teJ "ilory" also signifies" beauty" (2 Sam. i. 19; 'eh.' iy"; 2.; Ezek. vu. 2~); and the glory fo~ _which •1:yrc w~s renowned consisted, ~ot fo i;11ili~ tary rep~tat10a _or government&.\ ability, but m wealth, commerce and· the prq/j.uctiori uf beautiful obJec~s, as ga~ents, bowls, me.taJ" castings, and oth~r works:Q( a.rt.·· Jt "as o~ the per~e,cuon to ~h1cb s~e bad brought the arts which aim at :embodying the Le,autiful, t~t lyre especially prided herself. Her boast was," I am of perfect beauty" (Ezek., XXVIL 3). By her .fate we are taught~ l. 'IH.AT 'fll.E CUJ,,T 01" 'l'.11.£ B.EAUTlli'IJL IIAS 1TB ESPECIAL DANGEBS TO OUB lilOllAb on, %.XII!, 1-18.] THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 375