Ezekiel 37:2

2 Il me fit passer auprès d'eux, tout autour; et voici, ils étaient fort nombreux, à la surface de la vallée, et ils étaient complètement secs.

Ezekiel 37:2 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 37:2

And caused me to pass by them round about
Round, round
^F19; several times round, that he might take exact notice of them, of their number, situation, and condition: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley;
as the Jews were in captivity; and as they will be when they shall be converted; and as the number of Christians will be in the spiritual reign of Christ; and as the dead will be at the time of their resurrection, both of the just and unjust: and, lo, they were very dry;
through length of time they had lain there, exposed to wind and weather; the flesh being wholly consumed from off of them, and the marrow within quite dried up; so that there was no probability or hope, humanly speaking, of their being quickened: these are a fit emblem of men in a state of nature and unregeneracy, who have no spiritual life, but are dead in trespasses and sins; have no sense of sin or danger; no strength to redeem and regenerate themselves, or do anything that is spiritually good; have no spiritual motion; no inward desires after God, or affection to him; no lifting up of the heart to him, or going out of the soul in faith and love to Christ; but in themselves entirely lifeless, helpless, and hopeless.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (bybo bybo) "circum circa", Pagninus; "undique undique", Montanus.

Ezekiel 37:2 In-Context

1 La main de l'Eternel fut sur moi, et l'Eternel me transporta en esprit, et me déposa dans le milieu d'une vallée remplie d'ossements.

2 Il me fit passer auprès d'eux, tout autour; et voici, ils étaient fort nombreux, à la surface de la vallée, et ils étaient complètement secs.

3 Il me dit: Fils de l'homme, ces os pourront-ils revivre? Je répondis: Seigneur Eternel, tu le sais.

4 Il me dit: Prophétise sur ces os, et dis-leur: Ossements desséchés, écoutez la parole de l'Eternel!

5 Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l'Eternel, à ces os: Voici, je vais faire entrer en vous un esprit, et vous vivrez;