BONES is used widely in OT as a synonym for the body, living or dead, or the person ( Psalms 42:10; Psalms 51:8 ). As the solid framework of the body, the bones are the seat of health and strength, so that breaking, rottenness, dryness of the bones are frequent figures for sickness or moral disorder ( Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 17:22 , Psalms 6:2; Psalms 22:14 ). ‘Bone of my bone’ answers to the English phrase ‘of the same blood’; but the concluding words of Ephesians 5:30 should be omitted. In Luke 24:39 the unique expression seems to emphasize the nature of the Resurrection body, as different from the ordinary ‘flesh and blood.’ See Gibson, Thirty-Nine Articles , p. 188.
C. W. Emmet.