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Mat 24:28. Ὅπου γὰρ κ.τ.λ., for where, etc.) This adage is combined here with the mention of the false teachers which occurs in Mat 24:23; but in Luk 17:37; Luk 17:31-32, with that of sufferings caused by war. The carcase, therefore, must be carnal Judaism, devoid of that life by which the body of Christ is sustained, and yet boasting some appearance of a body, upon which, as upon a carcase left to them, the eagles will pounce greedily and in great numbers.-(συναχθήσονται, will be gathered together-the future tense.) Christ, however, who comes as the lightning, is not to be sought for at that carcase; Mat 24:23; Mat 24:27. All kinds of eagles are not carnivorous, but only some species;[1050] cf. Job 39:30. These eagles are partly the false Christs and false prophets, partly the Roman forces. The Romans bore an eagle on their standards, and were not the first nation who did so; and some are of opinion that the eagle in this passage, and the boar in Psa 80:14 (13) allude to their military standards; cf. Hos 8:1.
[1050] Bengel would seem to mean, they do not all feed on carrion, as vultures do. The Greek word comprehends both tribes, the latter of which are probably meant in the text.-(I. B.)