Can these bones live?—The question is put to the prophet in order to emphasize the human impo ibility of what is immediat…

God did not ask this question for His own information, but for the prophet's. The Lord wanted him to realize the difficulties of the work to which …

And he said to me, son of man, can these bones live ?

&c.] Is there any probability of it? Is there any reason to …

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 …