THE OR, EZEKIEL'S VISION, CONSIDERED IN A COURSE OF LECTURES BY G. T. BEDELL, D. D. PHILADELPHIA: DANIELS & SMITH, N. W. CORNER OF FOURTH AND ARCH STS. 1846. кс 7315 HARVARD 41x406 ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by French & Perkins, in the Clerk's Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. THE VISION, &c. CAN THESE BONES LIVE? THERE is not, perhaps, my brethren, in the whole compass of Scripture, a passage of greater sublimity than the one with which this text is connected. The descriptions which Ezekiel gives of his prophetic visions, are marked by an energy and magnificence of language, which we find but seldom equalled even in Isaiah; and in the vision of the "valley full of bones," there is a mixture of the terrific, and, at the same time, the most touching and pathetic imagery. It is a description given in the highest order of poetry, with a vigour of expression which no language |