Pelusium

AI summary: Pelusium matters because frontier cities often concentrate both military and symbolic weight. In Ezekiel's oracle against Egypt, Sin represents one of the fortified points that will not escape judgment. The cross references present Pelusium as Egypt's north-eastern gateway under prophetic warning.¹

“Sin against the Holy Ghost” (q.v.), or a “sin unto death” (Matt. 12:31, 32; 1 John 5:16), which amounts to a wilful rejection of grace. Sin, a city in Egypt, called by the Greeks Pelusium, which means, as does also the Hebrew name, “clayey” or “muddy,” so called from the abundance of clay found there. It is called by Ezekel (Ezek. 30:15) “the strength of Egypt, “thus denoting its importance as a fortified city. It has been identified with the modern Tineh, “a miry place,” where its ruins are to be found. Of its boasted magnificence only four red granite columns remain, and some few fragments of others. ³