wheresoever the carcase is The spiritual perception will discern when the Lord comes and where, by a subtle sense like that by which the vulture is cognisant of his distant prey.

Another interpretation fixes upon the idea of corruption in the body, and taking the "eagles" to mean the eagles of the Roman standards reads the sense thus: "where the corrupt body of sin lies there will the eagles of vengeance be gathered."

This view is excluded by the division of the prophecy adopted in these notes.

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