Putting a face to Ezekiel’s Fallen King of Tyre
by Damien F. Mackey Hadrian, in fact, called Tyre a Metropolis , “Great City”, Mother of other cities. Introduction Although the emperor Hadrian would generally be considered to have been well out of chronological range to be able to qualify as the prophet Ezekiel’s fallen King of Tyre (28:1-19), here the ill-fated tyrant will be dragged back, kicking and screaming, by some centuries, to fuse with the notorious king, Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ (God Manifest), considered by many to be the persecuting “little horn” of Daniel 7 – the vision of whom had so troubled the prophet (Daniel 7:15, 28). I had already come to the conclusion - directly in the face of text book wisdom - that Hadrian, regarded as being one of the great Roman emperors, was, in fact, a Greek. For, despite the chronological gap that is thought to separate Antiochus from Hadrian, the latter is often called ‘a mirror-image’ of Antiochus. ...