Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Ver. 4. Jeremiah came in and went out.] He was yet at liberty; as the saints have some halcyons times, yet are never unexercised, as we see in the apostles, but especially in Paul. Act 5:13
For they had not put him in prison.] Not yet they had. It was in our late wars a like difficult thing to find a wicked man in the enemy's prisons, or a godly man out of them.