Ambrose of Milan, on Ezek 37:4

“And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.”

“In minute detail the holy prophet Ezekiel teaches and describes how strength will be restored to our dry bones, feeling return and motion added; how, with the return of sinews, the whole structure of the human body will grow strong, and how the driest bones will be clothed with restored flesh and the openings of the veins and the streams of the blood will be concealed by a veil of skin drawn tautly over them. At the very words of the prophet, as we read, the crop of human bodies seems to rise up again to life, and one may see the wide expanses of the fields sprouting with a novel kind of growth.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.