exilic

The key must be sought in the exilic and post-exilic age where, unfortunately, direct and decisive evidence is lacking.

For it evidently contains both pre-exilic and exilic elements.

Her exilic judgment is pictured in the next verse: "And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land."

It is in commenting on a verse of these chapters that Calvin makes the admission of exilic origin which has been quoted above.