If I should lift up the wings of the dawn &c. If I were to fly with the swiftness of light from the east to the furthest west. The dawn swiftly spreading over the sky, is naturally represented as winged. Cp. -wings of the wind," Psalms 18:10, -wings of the sun," Malachi 4:2.

The sea, from the position of the Mediterranean to the west of Palestine, denotes the West.

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