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Ezekiel 37:12

Ezekiel 37:12

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I will open: This is a pointed allusion to the resurrection; under which figure Isaiah () also describes the restoration of the house of Israel, when he says, "thy dead men shall live;" at which time their bones are said to flourish (), or to be restored to their former strength and vigour; and, in like manner, St. Paul (), expresses their conversion by "life from the dead." In the land of their captivity, they seemed as absolutely deprived of their country as persons committed to the grave are cut off from the land of the living; but when Cyrus issued his proclamation, Jehovah, as it were, opened their graves, and when he stirred up their spirits to embrace the proffered liberty, he put his Spirit within them, that they might live; and their re-establishment in their own land evinced the truth of God in the prediction, and his power in its accomplishment. ; , ; , ; ;

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