Ezekiel — Chapter 17
The parable of two great eagles and a vine: Lapide identifies the first eagle as Nebuchadnezzar, the second as Pharaoh, and the vine as the house of David under Zedekiah. He gives a detailed literal-historical exposition before moving to the allegorical sense: the two eagles are the Old and New Testaments, the vine is the Church, the cedar transplanted to Lebanon is Christ exalted to heaven.
Verse 22
God himself will take a tender shoot from the top of the cedar and plant it: Lapide reads this Messianic oracle as fulfilled in Christ, the Shoot (germen) of Jesse (Is. 11:1), who though planted in lowliness (the Incarnation) will grow into a great tree under which all nations find shelter.
Verse 24
All the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord bring low the high tree and make high the low tree: Lapide reads this as the great Magnificat theology of God's reversal of human hierarchies — prefiguring Mary's Magnificat (Lk. 1:52) and Christ's beatitudes. He cites Gregory's Moralia on the providential humbling of the great and elevation of the humble.