488 Chap. 39. .,gn. Expo1.iion upon tine Book,rf J o B. Verf.3o.' yagenies,. ffi- a good way, he will hold ir, and if in an ill way, he will hardly 1n L mefatue leave or be beaten out of it :. I,i. Uaily,.fuch as the infiitution and f1'natadil. inffrudion of youth is, Each will their afterconvcrfationbe. Her .Quam primtim yonag ones alfó Jack rip blood and, as it follows, ritp ova. Where theflansare, there isVie. guflatierit , s Juven, Satyr. This fltews us yet mo:e fully, what the Eagle lives upon. where carcaffes be, refont they, faith Mr. Broughton. Some inter- Dstic?rl Non pret the Text, not of bodies flain,but of bodies to be flain;where proocciJufed battels are to be fought, thither the Eagle reforts. Natural Hi- atata oceidendis fiorians tell us, Eagles will prefage or finell a battei , force fay, ecc pio.2:old. leven dayesbefore 'cis fought, others three, at leaff two ; fo that Ælian.I.14. not only wfire the carcafles are, but are like to be, thither the `' 3' Eagles gather. Yet force ccmend very much, that there is a fo:c zis appellaur or race of Eagles fo noble, that they will not feed upon a dead carnesnonat- carcafs, but live upon he:bs; but that moll Eagles feed upon :ingit,fed ad bodies flain, none deny. This Scripture of job is alluded to by vielurn ei her- Chriff himfeif (Mat. 24. 2b. oaf°t`sef}' Luke 17. 37.) and both upon the fame accounts, the defiru pionof era alern the glorious coming Ælian.Ariflot f 3 of Chriff, and the end of the world. InMatthew he faith,t3'kere- foever the carcafs is, there will the eagles begathered together: And in Luke, wherefoever the body is, thither will the Eagles bega- thered togetber.St.Matthew faith,where the carcafs is,and St. Luke faith, where the body is. There are various interpretations of there two Scriptures, both quoted (as is generally conceived) from the Text under hand. Some expound them only of the de- ffruaion cf the . ews by the Romans, and give the fence thus ; That whereas Chriff had foretold the deffruEtionof the 7ewifh State and Temple by the Romans , and that it fhonld fall upon Tir.iiarnmond all places, even at oncelike lightning, fo that it wouldbe in vain for them to run from one City or Country toanother, in hope to avoid the vengeance, becaufe wherefoever the Pros fhould be, or whitherfoever they fhoufd retire to hide and fave then-Selves, thither would the Romans Armies come (whole Enfign was the Eagle) and finding them our, flay and defiroy them. As if the Lord Ch. ifi had faid, This threatned defolatior, will be univer- fal and unavoidable ; where ever anyJews a:-e, there the Ro- mans will be. Thus the whole body of the /swirl) Nation is compared to a carcafs or body, and the Romans to Eagles. That -An-
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