Inner Reading of History
S. Cox, D. D. Matthew 24:28 For wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. If only we have eyes to read it aright, to see the Divine will and the Divine laws at work in it, the history of the Kings of England is just as instructive to us as the history of the Kings of Israel, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire as the siege and capture of Jerusalem, the reformation wrought by Luther as the revival of religion under Hezekiah, the French Revolution as the rupture between the ten Hebrew tribes and the two. No historical event is without its religious lesson for us, if only we can trace it to its moral cause; no human life, if only we can read its illustrations of that law-abiding Providence which watches over us as carefully as it did over the Jews, and shapes our rough-hewed ends for us as it shaped theirs. (S. Cox, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. WEB: For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather together.