Eze 37:9, Joh 3:8, 20:22 | JFB | e4.org | 9. wind —rather, the spirit of life or life-breath ( Margin ). For it is distinct from "the four winds " from which it is summoned. from the four winds —implying that Israel is to be gathered from the four quarters of the earth ( ), even as they were "scattered into all the winds" ( ; compare ).

‏ Ezekiel 37:9

9. wind—rather, the spirit of life or life-breath (Margin). For it is distinct from "the four winds" from which it is summoned.

from the four winds—implying that Israel is to be gathered from the four quarters of the earth (Isa 43:5, 6; Jer 31:8), even as they were "scattered into all the winds" (Eze 5:10; 12:14; 17:21; compare Re 7:1, 4).

‏ John 3:8

8. The wind, &c.—Breath and spirit (one word both in Hebrew and Greek) are constantly brought together in Scripture as analogous (Job 27:3; 33:4; Eze 37:9-14).

canst not tell, &c.—The laws which govern the motion of the winds are even yet but partially discovered; but the risings, failings, and change in direction many times in a day, of those gentle breezes here referred to, will probably ever be a mystery to us: So of the operation of the Holy Ghost in the new birth.

‏ John 20:22

22. he breathed on them—a symbolical conveyance to them of the Spirit.

and saith, Receive ye the Holy Ghost—an earnest and first-fruits of the more copious Pentecostal effusion.