^{14 Ref} Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

^{15 Ref} And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,

^{16 Ref} After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:

^{17 Ref} So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,

^{18 Ref} Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.