understood by books] For though he was an excellent Prophet, yet he daily encreased in knowledge by reading of the Scriptures. Jeremiah the Prophet] Jeremiah 29:10. the desolations of Jerusalem] Daniel hath the very Hebrew terme of Jeremy. Chorboth; and by Jeremy he must be expounded, Jeremiah 25:11. And this land shall become Chorboth (that is, a wildernesse) and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the King of Babel 70 years Properly the utter ruine of Jerusalem was but 52 years, but he termeth all Jerusalems state in the captivity, by a terme in strict propriety true onely in the greater part, sending the reader to Jeremie for the full meaning. God in Moses, Leviticus 26:34. useth the same Synecdoche and short specch, whom the holy man delighted to follow.