Ezekiel — Chapter 27
An extended lament over Tyre as a great merchant ship, listing its trading partners and luxuries. Lapide uses the chapter for a lengthy digression on the theology of wealth — legitimate commerce as a participation in the divine ordering of creation, but luxury and avarice as a corruption of the merchant's proper vocation.
Verse 3
'Perfectus decore in corde marium' — perfect in beauty in the heart of the seas: Lapide reads Tyre's beauty and commercial empire as a type of worldly civilization at its most brilliant, which makes its sudden overthrow all the more instructive. He cites Chrysostom's homilies against wealth and Ambrose's De Officiis.