Commentary
And when the one who is astonished by it is vague, he clarifies it by saying a narration from them, exaggerating in denial, by beginning their denial with a rhetorical question: "When we have died and our souls have departed from our bodies, and we have become dust, is there any difference between us and the dust of the earth?" And when the worker in the context is what is its estimation: Shall we return? He indicated it by saying and pointing with a tool of distance to the great extent of their denial: "That," meaning: the matter which is in the utmost distinction of our dust from the rest of the dust, and it is the content of the news of our return, "a return," meaning: a return to what we were upon, "far away" [indeed] because it is not possible to distinguish our dust from the rest of the dust.
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