And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 14. And thy renown went forth.] Pliny saith of Jerusalem that it was the most famous of all the cities of the East; of the world he might have said, all things considered.
Through the comeliness which I had put upon thee.] As Abraham's servant put the jewels upon Rebekah. See on Ezekiel 16:13. That is a famous canon a of the second Arausican council, Tales nos amat Deus, quales futuri sumus ipsius dono, non quales sumus nostro merito: God loveth us such as we shall be by his free gift, and not such as we are by our own merit.
a Canon 12.