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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Chapter 28

Cross-Reference Bible NotesR.A. TorreyTreasury of Scriptural Knowledge

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This is a biblical cross-reference compilation from R.A. Torrey's *Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge* (ca. 1880), a Victorian-era evangelical reference work in the tradition of exhaustive scripture-indexing tools. It covers Ezekiel 28, organizing the chapter into four sections: God's judgment on the proud prince of Tyre, a lamentation over that ruler's fall from glory, a parallel judgment on Sidon, and a closing promise of Israel's restoration. The work's substance is almost entirely chains of parallel scripture citations — hundreds of cross-references keyed to individual phrases — rather than prose commentary, functioning as a map of biblical intertextuality for preachers and students. Sparse prose notes do appear, including a historically grounded identification of the prince of Tyre as Ithobal, drawn from Josephus's citation of Phoenician annals. The passage on the king's pre-fall splendor ("in Eden," the "anointed cherub," perfection until iniquity) is theologically loaded territory — traditionally read by many interpreters as also depicting the fall of Satan — though Torrey's cross-references treat it primarily as prophetic address to a human ruler, connecting the pride motif through Daniel, Isaiah 14, and 2 Thessalonians. Readers who want interpretive argument or historical analysis will not find it here; the work rewards those who want a dense network of scriptural parallels to trace across the whole Bible.

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Chapter 28

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