And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
Ver. 3. Can these bones live?] In the resurrection at the last day he knew they should, for among the Jews that was generally believed; Joh 11:24 but whether in this world, and at this time, that was the question. The Jewish doctors boldly, but groundlessly, answer that these dead bones and bodies did then revive, and that many of them did return into the land of Israel, and married wives and begat children. But this is as true as that other dotage of theirs, that the dead bodies of Jews, in what country soever buried, do by certain underground passages travel into Judea, and there rest until the general resurrection.
O Lord God, thou knowest.] And he to whom thou art pleased to reveal it. Eπεχω. The Russians in a difficult question use to answer, God and our great duke know all this.