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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 30:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, etc.] And they are yet to come; the prophecy is not yet fulfilled. Kimchi says this belongs to the days of the Messiah; but not to his first coming, or to his coming in the flesh, which the Jews vainly expect; but to his spiritual coming in the latter day: that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord; which cannot be understood of their return from the Babylonish captivity; for, as Kimchi rightly observes, only Judah and Benjamin returned from thence; and though there were some few of the other tribes that came with them, especially of the tribe of Levi, yet not sufficient to answer to so great a prophecy as this, which refers to the same time as that in (<280305>Hosea 3:5); as appears by comparing that with (<243009>Jeremiah 30:9); and when, as the Apostle Paul says, “all Israel shall be saved”, (<451125>Romans 11:25); and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it; the land of Canaan, given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and which shall be again by the Jews their posterity; for, without that the Jews upon their call and conversion shall return to their own land, in a literal sense, I see not how we can understand this, and many other prophecies.
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