Ezekiel 29:4-5 The fish of the rivers

With reference to Ezekiel 29:4-5—"The creatures in the sea having souls"* were the fish of the symbolic sea; and therefore fish in a symbolic sense. "A sea being thus considered," says Daubuz, "as a kingdom or empire (in the text, the western empire), the living creatures in it must be typical fishes, or men. But if a sea be considered only of the waters, of which it is a collection, then the waters will signify the common people; and the fishes, or the creatures in the sea, living, as having a power to act, will denote their rulers. And in this sense are the fishes mentioned in Ezek. xxix. 4,5, explained of the princes of Pharaoh."