a Merchant] Heb. Canaan: Namely, Ephraim is degenerate, and like the wicked Canaanite, whose ordinary exercise was Merchandizing, with all the vices which were annexed unto it and therfore that name is taken for a Merchant addicted to dishonest gain, fraud, and avarice. See Ezekiel 16:3. and very often also for a deceiver.