Exodus 19:4

I bare you on eagles' wings] God's grace and care were the source of Israel's duty of obedience and loyalty: see on Exodus 15:16. The image here employed to illustrate the watchful solicitude of God is true and beautiful. When the eaglets first attempt to fly, the parent bird is said to hover round them and beneath them, so as to support them on its expanded wings when they are exhausted: see Deuteronomy 32:11. Brought you unto myself] i.e. to Sinai, the 'mount of God,' where He was about to make a special revelation of Himself. It is possible, however, to take the words in a spiritual sense, as denoting the divine nurture and education of the Israelites in the fuller knowledge of the true God: see on Exodus 19:5; Exodus 19:6.