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I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
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A Two-Stage Restoration
Commentators explain that the restoration is a two-stage process, deliberately echoing the creation of Adam in Genesis 2:7. First, God reassembles the physical bodies with sinews, flesh, and skin. However, like Adam before receiving the breath of life, these bodies are still dead, showing that a perfect outward form is not the same as true life.
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Ezekiel
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19th Century
Anglican
No breath in them.— The restoration of the dry bones to life is described as taking place in two stages, with evident ref…
Baptist
So there was no very great improvement so far; there were only dead bodies instead of dry bones; there was something more to look at, but nothing m…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when I saw, lo, the sinews and the flesh came upon them And they began to look li…
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Presbyterian
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 …
