I was directed to this page and asked my opinion of it.
I’ll keep my response quite short, since there’s no point in arguing in detail with a series of suggestions all resting upon one grotesque misapprehension.
The author of the page wrongly insists that the ‘King of Tyre’ referenced by Ezekiel and Isaiah is ‘Satan’ or ‘The Devil’. This is quite untrue. The King of Tyre is none other than (drumroll please) – the King of Tyre!
The page’s constructor (dilettante) is wrong on that most basic of issues and ergo wrong on everything else he asserts. The passages in question have nothing to do with the devil and everything in the world to do with human pride and arrogance.
I commend to the interested – and by that I mean those interested in learning what Ezekiel and Isaiah are actually talking about and not what a dilettante says they are talking about – the very fine commentaries by John Watts (Isaiah) and Walther Eichrodt (Ezekiel).
Thank you for posting this Jim. It didn’t occur to me that the article was flawed from the beginning…I was just wondering specifically about Satan having a head of an ox and then how all that flowed into current day worship of the bovine species. I’m quite simple
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