A great eagle ... - Probably the golden eagle, whose plumage has the variety of color here depicted. The eagle (the king of birds) is a natu…

A great eagle with great wings. —In the original, the great eagle. This is explained in Ezekiel 17:12 as the king of …

Here the Prophet reasons from the greater to the less. For if Nebuchadnezzar was able to subdue the whole kingdom with ease when the Jews were stil…

And say, thus says the Lord God
The riddle is not the prophet's, nor the parable his, but the Lord God's; and exceed…

Mighty conquerors are aptly likened to birds or beasts of prey, but their destructive pa ions are overruled to advance God's designs. Those who dep…