By an instance from nature, which we daily see, we are instructed in a sacrament of Christ. Eagles and vultures are said to scent dead bodies even beyond sea, and to flock to feed upon them. If then birds, not having the gift of reason, by instinct alone find out where lays a dead body, separated by so great space of country, how much more ought the whole multitude of believers to hasten to Christ, whose lightning goeth forth out of the east, and shines even to the west? We may understand by the carcase here, or corpse [πτῶμα], which in the Latin is more expressively ‘cadaver,’ an allusion to the passion of Christ’s death.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).