2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, …
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)It is usual with the prophets, when they foretel the grievances of the church, to furnish it at the same time with proper antidotes, a remedy for every malady. And no relief is so sovereign, of such general application, so easily accommodated to every case, and of such powerful efficacy, as those that are fetched from Christ and the future state; thence the comforts here are fetched. I. Jesus Chri…
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