"her young ones also suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is she": an expression much the same with this in the text, and to which it seems to refer; see also Pr 30:17. Though Chrysostom says, both the passage in Job, and this in Matthew, are to be understood of vultures; he doubtless means the eagles that are of the vulture kind, the Gypaeetos, or vulture eagle.
There is one kind of eagles, naturalists say , will not feed on flesh, which is called the bird of Jupiter; but, in common, the eagle is represented as a very rapacious creature, seizing, and feeding upon the flesh of hares, fawns, geese, &c.
and the rather this creature is designed here; since, of all birds, this is the only one that is not hurt with lightning , and so can immediately seize carcasses killed thereby; to which there seems to be an allusion here, by comparing it with the preceding verse: however, the Persic version, though it is literally a proper one, yet from the several things observed, it is not to be overlooked and slighted.
Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 4. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 4. c. 2. Aelian. de Animal. Natura, l. 2. c. 46. De Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32. Hist. Nat l. 10. c. 3. In Matt. Homil. 49. Aelian. de Animal.
l. 9. c. 10. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c.