Doth the eagle mount up at thy command,.... No; but by an instinct which God has placed in it, and a capacity he has given it above all other birds. They take a circuit in their flight, and bend about before they soar aloft: but the eagle steers its course directly upwards towards heaven, till out of sight; and, as Apuleius says p, up to the clouds, where it rains and snows, and beyond which there is no place for thunder and lightning;
and make her nest on high? so the philosopher says q; eagles make their nests not in plains, but in high places, especially in cragged rocks, as in Job 39:28.
p Florida 1. q Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32.