And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in midheaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
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Bede
AD 735
birds: He calls the saints birds, as passing their life in heaven. For "wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together;" and as bringing them together into one body, he had said, "flying in the midst of heaven."