the bones has been replaced by a reference to the “slain” is in the first instance connected with the fact that meanwhile the bones have become bodies again, which are now lying there like corpses. It is only at this point that the image of the vision first connects up with the reference to the slain. Here too the thought of those who once fell in the battles with the Babylonians may also have been an influence. The oracle as a whole is not, however, referring to the resurrection of those who fell