| Ezekiel 29:3
| Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, Pharao, king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.
| Dragon. Hebrew tannin, (Haydock) whence thunnus may be derived, means any water monster, and seems here put for the crocodile, (Calmet) which Pharao signifies. (Grotius) --- It was the symbol of Egypt, (Calmet) and adored by the people, Jeremias 15:2. --- Rivers; the different branches of the Nile, and the canals. --- Myself. I owe my power to no other. (Calmet) --- "Apries is said to think that no god could deprive him of the kingdom, so well he seemed to have established it." (Herodotus 2:169.) --- So the ancient Pharao said; I know not the Lord, Exodus 5:2. He boasts of having conducted the waters of the Nile through the land, ver. 9. (Menochius) --- This river was honoured as the greatest of the gods. (Heliod. 9.) --- Terra suis contenta bonis non indiga mercis Aut Jovis; in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo. (Lucan viii.)
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