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202 A Commentary
Chapter tries whither they were difperfed over the
XXXVIT. World, exprefled by their being fcattered tot^WJ
ward all Winds, Chap. v. 10. xii. 14. xvil 21.
Ver. xo. Ver. 10. oAn exceeding great oArmy,'] To
fignify the great Numbers they will amount to,
when they return from their feveral Difperfions,
and unite'into one Body. They are elfewhere
ftyled a Remnant, but that is in comparifon of
, the whole Nation. See the Notes upon Ija.iv.
2. x. 22. xxvii. 12, 1 j.
Ver, 1 1 . Ver. 1 1 Theft 'Bones are the whole Houfe of
Jfrael.'] They reprefent the forlorn and defpe-
rate Condition to which the whole Nation is
reduced.
Ver. 12. Ver. 12, / will open your Graves, and caufe
you to come out of your Graves.,] I will reunite
you into one Body or Nation, who now lie fcattered
and difperfed as the Bones in a Charnel
Houfe. Compare Ver. 21. In their State of
Difperfion and Captivity they are called the
'Dead Israelites in Haruch,
their Reftoration is defcribed
Chap. iii. 4. and
as a R efurre&ion
by Ifaiah, Chap. xxvi. 19. at which time their
'Bones are fa id to flour iflj, or to be reftored to
their former Strength and Vigour, in the fame
Prophet, Chap. lxvi. 14. In like manner St.
Paul expreffes their Converfion, and the General
Reftoration which fhall accompany it, by
Life from the Dead, Rom. xi. 15.
Ibid. oAnd bring you into the Land oflfrael.]
See Ver. 2$. and the Note upon Chap.xxviii.
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