2 Chronicles — Chapter 36

ILLUDEBANTQUE PROPHETIS DONEC ASCENDERET FUROR DOMINI IN POPULUM EJUS ET ESSET NULLA CURATIO — they mocked God's messengers and despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the Lord's wrath rose against His people and there was no remedy. Lapide: the hardened refusal to hear the prophets brought on the destruction; the progression from mocking to irreversible judgment.

ET CELEBRARET TERRA SABBATA SUA: CUNCTIS ENIM DIEBUS DESOLATIONIS EGIT SABBATUM USQUE DUM COMPLERENTUR SEPTUAGINTA ANNI — the land rested and observed its sabbaths all the days of the desolation. Lapide (citing Theodoretus): from Saul's kingdom to the captivity was 490 years, containing 70 sabbatical years which Israel violated by farming; God now restored to the land its 70 sabbaths in the 70 years of captivity. \"Multiply 70 by 7 and you get 490.\"

ANNO AUTEM PRIMO CYRI REGIS PERSARUM AD EXPLENDUM SERMONEM DOMINI QUEM LOCUTUS FUERAT PER OS JEREMIAE SUSCITAVIT DOMINUS SPIRITUM CYRI — In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus. Lapide: these verses are repeated word for word at the beginning of Esdras, from which interpreters conclude that Esdras was the author of the books of Paralipomenon. Cyrus is a type of Christ who liberates captive souls from the slavery of sin and the devil, and restores them to the heavenly Jerusalem.

OMNIA REGNA TERRAE DEDIT MIHI DOMINUS DEUS CAELI ET IPSE PRAECEPIT MIHI UT AEDIFICAREM EI DOMUM IN JERUSALEM QUAE EST IN JUDAEA: QUIS EX VOBIS EST IN OMNI POPULO EJUS? SIT DOMINUS DEUS SUUS CUM EO ET ASCENDAT. — Cyrus's proclamation: God has given him all the kingdoms of the earth and commanded him to build the Lord a house in Jerusalem. \"Whoever among you belongs to his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.\" The 70 years of captivity correspond to the 70 weeks of Daniel 9, at the end of which Christ was to come — \"of whom Cyrus was a figure, who was to liberate them from the slavery of sin and the devil, and restore them to the heavenly Jerusalem,\" writes Lapide.