Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Bird; Cyrus, whose rapid conquests are thus denoted. (Calmet) He chose a golden eagle, with wings expanded, for his standard. (Xenophon vii.) Christ came from heaven to redeem the world, Psalm xviii. 6., and Malachi as iv. 2. (Calmet) He was the orient, adored by the eastern sages, to whom the prophet refers. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)

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