Bible Dictionary: Eagle: Figurative

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Exodus 19:4
You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.
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Deuteronomy 32:11
As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:
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Jeremiah 48:40
For thus said the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
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Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
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Library

The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... says one of this class of expositors, the maiming of the body is figurative language,
and ... from the luxuriant imagery of the prophet: "A great eagle with great ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers.
... by the warp (stemosi), the furrows; and the woof (mitos) is a figurative expression
for ... of Moses: "These common things, the sow, the hawk, the eagle, and the ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter viii the use of the.htm

Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... The figurative reason for these things is that all these animals signified certain
sins ... In the eagle which flies at a great height, pride is forbidden: in the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm

Introductory Essay.
... state, in part in vindication of his own effort, that, though the eagle wings of ...
and an essential condition of the interpretation of the figurative language of ...
/.../augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/introductory essay .htm

John.
... sublime as a seraph, gentle as a lamb and bold as an eagle, deep as ... Interpreter of
God (1:18), but only in the Prologue, and such figurative designations as ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 83 john.htm

Chapter i
... 32:11) surely will not allow for the idea of "brooding." An eagle may brood ... Psalm
78:23; 2 Kings 7:2; Isaiah 24:18), these purely figurative expressions (also ...
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Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
... and Tophet, places in this country. Indeed, the whole, in a manner, was a
typical and a figurative thing. But I have, in the ensuing ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/solomons temple spiritualized.htm

An Exposition on the First Ten Chapters of Genesis, and Part of ...
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/an exposition on the first.htm

Subtopics

Eagle

Eagle: Carries Her Young Upon Her Wings

Eagle: Figurative

Eagle: Forbidden As Food

Eagle: Gier-Eagle

Eagle: Symbolical

Eagle: The Long Life of

Eagle: The Molting of

Eagle: The Nest of

Eagle: The Swift Flight of

The Eagle of Great and Powerful Kings