5Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
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And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. …
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. …
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)Here is, I. The vision of a resurrection from death to life, and it is a glorious resurrection. This is a thing so utterly unknown to nature, and so contrary to its principles ( a privatione ad habitum non datur regressus—from privation to possession there is no return ), that we could have no thought of it but by the word of the Lord ; and that it is certain by that word that there shall be a gen…
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