“Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.”
Will you still say, 'I am a god,' before him who slays you? But you are a man, and not a god, in the hand of him who wounds you, driving home the central message that the prince's presumption to divinity will be refuted in the moment of his death at the hands of human conquerors. The rhetorical questions emphasize the futility of his former claims, suggesting that faced with mortal injury, divine claims become ridiculous. The prince will discover that he is 'a man, and not a god' only when it is too late.
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