* unto.
28:64 Ne 1:9 Isa 11:11-16 Eze 39:25-29 Zep 3:19,20
* thence will the.
As this promise refers to a return from a captivity among all
nations, consequently it cannot be exclusively the Babylonish
captivity which is intended; and the repossession of their
land must be different from that which was consequent on their
return from Babylon. Nor at that period could it be said that
they were multiplied more than their fathers, or, as the
Hebrew imports, made greater than their fathers, when after
their return they were tributary to the Persians, and
afterwards fell under the power of the Greeks, under whom they
suffered much; nor have their hearts, as a nation, yet been
circumcised.
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