Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Like as the lion - This comparison is exactly in the spirit and manner, and very nearly approaching to the expression, of Homer.
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Iliad 12:299.
As the bold lion, mountain-bred, now long
Famished, with courage and with hunger stung
Attempts the thronged fold: him nought appals,
Though dogs and armed shepherds stand in guard
Collected; he nathless undaunted springs
O' er the high fence, and rends the trembling prey;
Or, rushing onward, in his breast receives
The well-aimed spear.
Of metaphors, allegories, and comparisons of the Hebrew poets, in which the Divine nature and attributes are represented under images taken from brutes and other low objects; of their effect, their sublimity, and the causes of it; see De Sac. Poes. Heb., Praelect. 16 sub. fin.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
2 Chronicles 1:17
Isaiah 31:5
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