Ezekiel — Chapter 26
The first of three chapters against Tyre (26-28), prophesying its utter destruction by Nebuchadnezzar. Lapide gives extensive historical commentary drawing on Josephus, Arrian's history of Alexander's siege, and Jerome. He notes the remarkable accuracy of the detailed prophecy and uses it as a major argument for the divine origin of prophecy against deists and skeptics of his era.
Verse 3
Many nations shall come against Tyre as the sea brings its waves: Lapide interprets the sea as the unstable mass of pagan nations, always churning against the community of faith. He applies this to the Church's perpetual warfare with the world.
Verse 12
They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise: Lapide develops the economic dimensions of Tyre's destruction, noting that the maritime trade empire's wealth was built partly on exploitation of weaker peoples. He applies his theology of just commerce versus unjust exploitation, drawing on Aristotle's Politics and Thomas's Commentary on same.
Verse 14
I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets: the prophecy against Tyre's utter desolation, fulfilled historically. Lapide cites Jerome's testimony that in his own day (4th century) Tyre was indeed a fishing village, and Alexander's causeway had permanently altered the coastline — direct physical fulfillment of Ezekiel's words.