The Resurrection of Lazarus

The body is formed gradually, with veins and arteries developing, along with marrow, membranes, and hairs.

The body is constructed slowly, with each limb being formed by the power of the word.

Just as a horse is formed from various components, the dead man, awakened by the voice of the master, is called, formed, and appears from the tomb.

The command to Lazarus is clear: 'Lazarus, come out' (John 11:43).

Before saying 'arise', he commands the exit.

First, Lord, raise him, and then, having arisen, command him to run.

The one lying down is still being hastened to run, a remarkable transformation.

Why do you proclaim the exit to the one lying down before the resurrection?

He says, 'Yes, to the one lying down, I command the run, so that I may not, having been occupied with the dead for two things, delay the exit. I say to him: 'Come out', so that he may run more quickly, having taken one deadline for both resurrection and run.'

Immediately, Lazarus jumps out of the tomb, as if he were a guardian rather than a dead man.

Hades below, as it seems, gives back the dead man and cries out in response.

Hades asks who this is who, with his voice, awakens the dead from their tombs as if they were sleeping.

Hades asks who loosens the old laws of the dead.

Hades is provoked to raise his dead.

Hades asks who proclaims a return to the dead.

Hades sees his scepter of tyranny over humans being taken away, as he sees.

Hades acknowledges that his prison of death is rotten.

Hades recalls that Elijah took one of his dead away for the sake of a woman (1 Kings 17:22-24).

Hades notes that after Elijah, Elisha came and also snatched away some of his dead (2 Kings 4:32-37).

Hades finds that this one is more bitter to him than the dead, having campaigned as a helper, calling the dead who have been buried as if they were living.

Hades has been robbed of a dead person whom he had buried.

The four-day-old body triumphs over Hades, with the funeral clothes dancing together with the living.

Hades fears that he will be trampled afterwards, with the swaddling clothes of the dead person who has escaped alongside himhim.

Hades wonders who will frighten him, now that he has been conquered by the dead person and has become like a guardian of the dead.

Hades sees Lazarus as a kind of deposit of the tomb, like gold given with seals.

Lazarus was bound with bands and placed with the tomb, but with the same bonds, he was given back to life.

The Jewish crowd was unbelieving and doubtful towards the great wonder-working, even now…

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