Eze 27:9, Joh 6:63 | JFB | STEP | 9. Gebal —a Ph nician city and region between Beirut and Tripolis, famed for skilled workmen ( , Margin; ). calkers — stoppers of chinks in a vessel: carrying on the metaphor as to Tyre. occupy thy merchandise —that is, to exchange merchandise with thee.

Ezekiel 27:9

9. Gebal—a Ph nician city and region between Beirut and Tripolis, famed for skilled workmen (1Ki 5:18, Margin; Ps 83:7).

calkers—stoppers of chinks in a vessel: carrying on the metaphor as to Tyre.

occupy thy merchandise—that is, to exchange merchandise with thee.

John 6:63

63. the flesh profiteth nothing—Much of His discourse was about "flesh"; but flesh as such, mere flesh, could profit nothing, much less impart that life which the Holy Spirit alone communicates to the soul.

the words that I speak . . . are spirit and . . . life—The whole burden of the discourse is "spirit," not mere flesh, and "life" in its highest, not its lowest sense, and the words I have employed are to be interpreted solely in that sense.