John Trapp on Jeremiah 25:11

Ver. 11. And this land ſhall be a deſolation—ſeventy yeares] Which commenced at the deportation of Jeconiah, 2 King. 24.8. See Jer. 29.1, 2, 3. with Ezek. 4.1. and 33.21. Avignon in France was the reſidence of the Pope for ſeventy years:Heyl Coſm. fol. 188. which time the Romans yet remember till this day by the name of the Babylonian captivity. Luther, when he firſt began to ſtir againſt the Pope, wrote a book bearing title De captivitate Babylonica: which when Bugenhagius a Pomeranian Divine firſt read, he pronounced it to be the moſt heretical piece that ever was written;Scult. Annal. but afterwards having better conſidered the contents of it, he retracted his former cenſure; he told his colleagues that all the world beſides was in deep darkneſs, and that Luther alone was in the light and in the right, and him he would follow. So he did, and drew many more with h[illegible: 1 letter]m.