Bible Encyclopedia: Eagle: Symbolical

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The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers.
... "For the use of symbolical speech is ... Such are the injunctions of Moses: "These common
things, the sow, the hawk, the eagle, and the raven, are not to be eaten ...
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But Besides, if Birds of Augury Converse with one Another...
... would not he have been on his guard against suffering what he did from the eagle? ...
himself who sent him to the light." And it is with a symbolical meaning [4043 ...
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The Four Gospels.
... The symbolical poesy of the church compares them with the four rivers of Paradise,
and with ... to Matthew, the lion to Mark, the ox to Luke, and the eagle to John ...
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Nicodemus.
... His baptism with water was of course symbolical; that is to say, the water itself ...
The mole cannot soar in the face of the sun like the eagle; neither can the ...
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Matthew.
... symbolical figures of Ezekiel to the Gospels: the Man is Matthew, the Lion, Mark,
the Calf, Luke, "because he began with Zacharias the priest," and the Eagle, ...
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Symbolic Ornaments of the Church
... made by the interlacing of three portions of circles, is also symbolical of the ... symbol
Constantine substituted the next day for the old Roman eagle upon the ...
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The Manifestation of the Messiah
... The eagle that had soared unhindered in mid-heaven seemed transfixed by a sudden
dart ... That Jordan water, flowing downwards to the Dead Sea, was symbolical. ...
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Standard Expositions of the Roman Catholic System.
... The 'Eagle of Meaux' was the greatest theological genius of France, and the oracle
of his ... at that time, and attained almost the authority of a symbolical book. ...
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The Middle Ages.
... These were built so as to be almost as symbolical as the Temple had been. ... The eagle
desk for the Holy Scripture, shows forth one Gospel emblem; the Litany desk ...
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... [now that it bends towards the second eagle] shall he ... But the symbolical action that
follows"the joining of two sticks into one"seems to be represented as ...
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Ezekiel 1:10
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
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Ezekiel 10:14
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
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Ezekiel 17:3
And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
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Daniel 7:4
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand on the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
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Revelation 4:7
And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
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Revelation 12:14
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
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