Lecture 19

^4:19^ Coph. Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the air: they pursued us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

85. Third, he excludes the remedy of flight. Here he touches upon the history that is told in Jeremiah 52, when the Chaldeans surrounded Zedekiah fleeing upon a solitary road. Note the hyperbolic expression: they shall fly as an eagle (Hab 1:8).