The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 37:6
The process of revivification is now divided into two stages—a preliminary stage which should effect the reconstruction of the external skeleton, by bringing together its different parts and clothing them with sinews, flesh, and skin (comp. Job 10:11 ); and a finishing stage, which should consist in animating, or "putting breath in" the reconstructed skeleton; corresponding so the two stages into which the process of man's original creation was divided ( Genesis 2:7 ). The result would... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 37:5
I will cause breath to eater into you ; literally, I am causing breath (or, spirit ) to enter into you . The real agent, therefore, in the resuscitation of the bones was to be, not the prophet or the word, but Jehovah himself; and that the end aimed at by the Divine activity was "life" shows the breath spoken of (ruach) was not to be the wind, as in Ezekiel 37:9 , or the Spirit, but the breath of life, as in Genesis 6:17 and Genesis 7:22 (comp. Genesis 2:7 ; Psalms 104:30 ; ... read more