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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Ezekiel 37:1

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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hand: In this vision, the dry bones aptly represent the ruined and desperate state of both Israel and Judah; and the revivification of these bones signifies their restoration to their own land after their captivity, and also their recovery from their present long dispersion. Although this is the primary and genuine scope of the vision, yet the doctrine of a general resurrection of the dead may justly be inferred from it; for "a simile of the resurrection," says Jerome, after Tertullian and others, "would never have been used to signify the restoration of the people of Israel, unless such a future resurrection had been believed and known; because no one attempts to confirm uncertain things by things which have no existence." Eze 1:3, Eze 3:14, Eze 3:22, Eze 33:22, Eze 40:1; Rev 1:10 carried: Eze 8:3, Eze 11:24; Kg1 18:12; Kg2 2:16; Luk 4:1; Act 8:39 Ezekiel 37:2
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