For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Ver. 3. I will bring again the captivity a of Israel and Judah.] This promise, Oecolampadius thinketh, was written in the book in greater letters than the rest; it was fulfilled according to the letter in carnal Israel sent back by Cyrus (upon Daniel's prayer, who understood by that book here mentioned that the time of deliverance, yea, the set time was come, Dan 9:2), but more fully in those "Jews inwardly," Rom 2:29 those "Israelites indeed" who are set at liberty by Christ, Joh 8:36 and shall be much more at the last day.
a Convertam conversionem. - Vulg.