John Gill's Exposition on Job 39:27

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, etc.] No; but by an instinct which God has placed in it, and a capacity he has given it above all other birds. They take a circuit in their flight, and bend about before they soar aloft: but the eagle steers its course directly upwards towards heaven, till out of sight; and, as Apuleius says f1432, up to the clouds, where it rains and snows, and beyond which there is no place for thunder and lightning; and make her nest on high? so the philosopher says f1433; eagles make their nests not in plains, but in high places, especially in cragged rocks, as in (<183928>Job 39:28).

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