is supernaturally brought into a remote and solitary region, the plain of Babylonia, cp. 3:22; and there, in a state of trance, he sees the vision. Under the weird imagery of dry bones reanimated into living men is described a mighty act of Jahveh, who alone can do what to human eyes looks impossible, and bring to life a people which seemed to itself and others as good as dead. If Israel’s restoration will be due solely to Jahveh’s action (36:22, 24), so will be Israel’s life in the coming age. The