Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Ezekiel
Book: Ezekiel
Chapter: 37
Overview:
God restores dried bones to
Life.
(1-14) The whole
House of
Israel is represented as enjoying the blessings of
Christ's
kingdom.
(15-28)
1-14 No created power could restore human bones to
Life.
God
alone could cause them to live.
Skin and
Flesh covered them, and
the wind was then told to blow upon these bodies; and they were
restored to
Life. The wind was an emblem of the
Spirit of
God,
and represented his quickening powers. The
Vision was to
encourage the desponding Jews; to predict both their restoration
after the
Captivity, and also their recovery from their present
and long-continued
Dispersion. It was also a clear intimation of
the
Resurrection of the dead; and it represents the power and
Grace of
God, in the
Conversion of the most hopeless sinners to
himself. Let us look to Him who will at last open our graves,
and bring us forth to
Judgment, that He may now deliver us from
Sin, and
Put his
Spirit within us, and keep us
By his power,
through
Faith, unto
Salvation.
15-28 This emblem was to show the people, that the
Lord would
unite
Judah and
Israel.
Christ is the true
David,
Israel's
King
of old; and those whom he makes willing in the
Day of his power,
he makes to walk in his judgments, and to keep his statutes.
Events yet to come will further explain this
Prophecy. Nothing
has more hindered the success of the
Gospel than divisions. Let
us study to keep the unity of the
Spirit in the
Bond of peace;
let us seek for Divine
Grace to keep us from detestable things;
and let us pray that all nations may be obedient and happy
subjects of the Son of
David, that the
Lord may be our
God, and
we may be his people for evermore.