Bible Dictionary: The Eagle: Called the Eagle of the Heavens

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Lamentations 4:19
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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From the Fourth Chapter.
... He was called a calf. And that He overcame death and ascended into the heavens,
extending His wings and protecting His people, He was named a flying eagle. ...
/.../commentary on the apocolypse of the blessed john/from the fourth chapter.htm

The First Part
... wilderness; the earth trembled and the heavens dropped at ... a man, the fourth of a
flying eagle, representing doubtless ... For what is called in the Apocalyptic text ...
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Ridicule of the Heathen Divinities.
... on whose account what is now Delos was called Ortygia ... a swan, or takes the form of
an eagle, and, making ... The Bull is in the heavens, and you slaughter its image ...
/.../tatian/tatians address to the greeks/chapter x ridicule of the heathen.htm

Selections from the Work against Heresies by Irenaeus, Bishop of ...
... our Lord, and his coming from the heavens in the ... of the knowledge which is falsely
so called, [writing] to ... and the fourth was like a flying eagle, making plain ...
/.../richardson/early christian fathers/selections from the work against 2.htm

Ezekiel's vision (Preached Before the Queen at Windsor, June 16 ...
... by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened ... ox signifying labour, the lion
power, the eagle foresight, and ... to call Himself, what He called Ezekiel, the ...
/.../the water of life and other sermons/sermon ix ezekiels vision preached.htm

A vision of the Latter-Day Glories
... THE PROPHETS OF GOD wore anciently called seers, for ... eagle wing, and scanned futurity
with eagle eye; he ... hill the top whereof reacheth to the seventh heavens. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/a vision of the latter-day.htm

The Light of Glory.
... can spend whole nights in the contemplation of the heavens. ... It is called supernatural,
because it comes from God ... equal here; for the man whose eagle eye can ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/chapter xiii the light of.htm

Life and Conduct of the Holy Women, Xanthippe, Polyxena, and ...
... Then Probus called Xanthippe to supper, and when she ... Paul, without arrogance, filling
the heavens, speaking within ... from the eastern parts an eagle, and seized ...
/.../unknown/the acts of xanthippe and polyxena/life and conduct of the.htm

On the Creation of the World
... a man, a calf, a lion, an eagle; and four ... This sixth day is called parasceve, [2200]
that is to say ... Moreover, the seven heavens agree with those days; for thus ...
/.../victorinus/on the creation of the world/on the creation of the.htm

Aron, Brother of Moses, 486, 487.
... Eagle, explanation of characteristics, [302]285, [303]506 ... Gentiles, called in,
[423]478; vast numbers of, in the ... be bought, [501]466; heaven of heavens, [502]502 ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/aron brother of moses 486.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