11. ravenous bird —Cyrus so called on account of the rapidity of his marches from the distant regions of Persia to pounce on his prey (see on :- ; Isaiah 46:4 ; Isaiah 46:4- : ; Isaiah 46:4- : ). The standard of Cyrus, too, was a golden eagle on a spear (see the heathen historian, XENOPHON, 7, where almost the same word is used, aetos, as here, ayit ). executeth my counsel — ( Isaiah 44:28 ; Isaiah 45:13 ). Babylon represents, mystically, the apostate faction: the destruction of its idols symbolizes the future general extirpation of all idolatry and unbelief. purposed . . . also do it — ( Isaiah 43:13 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"
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