Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 28:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 29 onwards) Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them: Thus says the Lord God: Moreover, your fathers have blasphemed against me and have treated me with contempt, even as they spurned me. And I brought them into the land that I had lifted my hand to give them ((Vulgate adds: that la…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.
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3art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge?
4Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?
— Ezekiel 28:5 —
6Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;
7because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge,