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Originally Posted by matthew11v25  what about:
Eze 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
Eze 28:14 You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
Eze 28:15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.
Eze 28:16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
could this be metaphorical for satan? |
This passage, like the Isaianic passage previously mentioned, presses a direct reference to another historic figure (King of Tyre) into service for a description of Satan's fall. This is
employment in another cause, and we ought to be very careful about using such a passage to describe an event for which we have little direct commentary.
This passage refers by way of analogy not to Satan's fall, but to ADAM's fall. Adam was the one to fall "Eden, the garden of God." Adam was bedecked with glory--like precious stone adornements--all which died with him in his rebellion, when "unrighteousness was found in him." As for the reference to "anointed guardian cherub," it is the
reversal of status which is brought into view; Adam was the first "guardian" or caretaker of the garden, and after his fall and ejection, an alternate guardian--an angel with a flaming sword--is interposed to enforce our first parent's removal.
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