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said to him, I will follow you. Accordingly, the Physician's cure is applied to the choices of men.

Another again touched the fringe of his garment secretly, and secretly reaped the cure; each received the cure as he believed. She says, I know that whatever you ask the Father, the Father gives you; and since Martha asked for a prayer, the Savior gives a prayer, not needing the prayer himself, but condescending to the woman's weakness, and to show that he is not opposed to God, but that what he does, this the Father also does. God formed man from the beginning; the formation was the work of both; for he says, Let us make man in our image and after our likeness. Again he wished to bring the thief into paradise, and immediately he spoke a word, and brought the thief into paradise, and did not need prayer, even though Christ had prevented all those after Adam from that entrance; for he placed the flaming sword to guard paradise. But Christ opened paradise by his authority, and brought in the thief. A thief, Master, you bring into paradise? Your Father cast Adam out of paradise for a single sin, and you bring in the thief, who is responsible for countless evils and countless transgressions? and so you simply bring him into paradise with a single voice? Yes; for neither did that happen without me, nor this without my Father; but both this 48.783 is mine, and that is my Father's. For I am in the Father, and the Father is in me.

3. And that you may see that the raising of the dead man was not the work of prayer,

listen to the prayer. For what does he say? I thank you, Father, that you have heard me. What then? Is this a form of prayer, is this a type of supplication? I thank you, that you have heard me. But I, he says, knew that you always hear me. If then you know, O Lord, that the Father always hears you, why then do you trouble him about things you know? I indeed, he says, know that the Father always hears me, but I said it for the sake of the crowd standing around, that all may know that you sent me. Did he pray for the dead man? Did he supplicate that Lazarus might rise? Did he say: Father, command death to obey? Did he say, Father, command Hades not to close its gates, but to eagerly give back the dead? But I said it for the sake of this crowd standing around, he says, that all may know that you sent me. Therefore what is happening is not a sign, but an instruction of those present. Do you see how the prayer was not for the dead man, but for the unbelievers present, that they may know, he says, that you sent me. And how are we to know, he says, that he sent you?

Pay attention, I beg you, with all accuracy. Behold, he says, with my own authority I call the dead man; behold with my own power I command death; I call the Father, father; I also call Lazarus from the tomb. If the first is not true, let not this happen either; but if the Father is truly father, let the dead man also obey for the instruction of those present. For what did Christ say? Lazarus, come forth. When the prayer was made, the dead man did not rise; but when he said, Lazarus, come forth, then the dead man rose. O tyranny of death; O tyranny of that power that holds the soul; O Hades, a prayer has been made, and you do not release the dead man? No, it says. Why? Because I was not commanded. I am a prisoner there, holding the one who is liable; 48.784 unless I am commanded, it says, I do not release; for the prayer, it says, was not for my sake, but for the unbelievers present. For I, unless I am commanded, do not release the one who is liable; I await the voice, that I may release the soul. Lazarus, come forth.

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εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ἀκολουθήσω σοι. Πρὸς τὰς προαιρέσεις τοίνυν τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἡ θεραπεία τοῦ ἰατροῦ προσάγεται.

Ἄλλη πάλιν ἥψατο τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ λάθρα, καὶ λάθρα τὴν θεραπείαν ἐκαρπώσατο· ἕκαστος ὡς ἐπίστευε καὶ τὴν θεραπείαν ἐλάμβανε. Αὕτη λέγει, Οἶδα ὅτι ὅσα ἂν αἰτήσῃ τὸν Πατέρα, δίδωσί σοι ὁ Πατήρ· καὶ ἐπειδὴ προσευχὴν ᾔτησεν ἡ Μάρθα, προσευχὴν δίδωσιν ὁ Σωτὴρ, οὐκ αὐτὸς τῆς προσευχῆς ἐπιδεόμενος, ἀλλὰ τὴν τῆς γυναικὸς ἀσθένειαν συμπεριφερόμενος, καὶ ἵνα δείξῃ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀντίθεος, ἀλλ' ὅτι καὶ ὃ ἂν αὐτὸς ποιῇ, τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ ποιεῖ. Ἔπλασεν ὁ Θεὸς ἐξ ἀρχῆς τὸν ἄνθρωπον· ἀμφοτέρων ἐγένετο τὸ πλάσμα· Ποιήσωμεν γὰρ, φησὶν, ἄνθρωπον κατ' εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ' ὁμοίωσιν. Πάλιν ἠθέλησε τὸν λῃστὴν εἰς τὸν παράδεισον εἰσενεγκεῖν, καὶ εὐθέως λόγον εἶπε, καὶ τὸν λῃστὴν εἰς τὸν παράδεισον εἰσήγαγε, καὶ οὐκ ἐδεήθη προσευχῆς, καίτοι γε πάντας τοὺς μετὰ τὸν Ἀδὰμ κωλύσας ἦν ὁ Χριστὸς ἐξ ἐκείνης τῆς εἰσόδου· ἔθηκε γὰρ τὴν φλογίνην ῥομφαίαν φυλάττειν τὸν παράδεισον. Ἀλλ' αὐθεντίᾳ Χριστὸς τὸν παράδεισον ἠνέῳξε, καὶ τὸν λῃστὴν εἰσήγαγε. Λῃστὴν, ∆έσποτα, εἰσάγεις εἰς τὸν παράδεισον; Ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ σὸς διὰ μόνην ἁμαρτίαν τὸν Ἀδὰμ ἐξήγαγεν ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου, καὶ σὺ τὸν λῃστὴν εἰσάγεις, τὸν μυρίοις κακοῖς καὶ μυρίαις παρανομίαις ὑπεύθυνον; καὶ ἁπλῶς οὕτω διὰ μίαν φωνὴν εἰς τὸν παράδεισον αὐτὸν εἰσάγεις; Ναί· οὔτε γὰρ ἐκεῖνο χωρὶς ἐμοῦ γέγονεν, οὔτε τοῦτο χωρὶς τοῦ Πατρός μου· ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο 48.783 ἐμὸν, κἀκεῖνο τοῦ Πατρός μου. Ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Πατρὶ, καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοί.

γʹ. Καὶ ἵνα ἴδῃς, ὅτι οὐκ ἐγένετο προσευχῆς ἔργον τὸ ἀναστῆναι τὸν νεκρὸν,

ἄκουσον τῆς προσ-ευχῆς. Τί γάρ φησιν; Εὐχαριστῶ σοι, Πάτερ, ὅτι ἤκουσάς μου. Τί οὖν; τοῦτο προσευχῆς εἶδός ἐστι, τοῦτο τύπος ἱκεσίας; Εὐχαριστῶ σοι, ὅτι ἤκουσάς μου. Ἐγὼ δὲ, φησὶν, ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις. Εἰ οὖν οἶδας, ὦ Κύριε, ὅτι πάντοτέ σου ἀκούει ὁ Πατὴρ, τί λοιπὸν περὶ ὧν οἶδας παρενοχλεῖς; Ἐγὼ μὲν, φησὶν, οἶδα ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούει ὁ Πατὴρ, Ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν περιεστῶτα ὄχλον εἶπον, ἵνα γνῶσι πάντες, ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας. Μή τι διὰ τὸν νεκρὸν προσηύξατο; μὴ ἱκέτευσεν ἵνα ἀναστῇ ὁ Λάζαρος; μὴ εἶπε· Πάτερ, κέλευσον τὸν θάνατον ὑπακοῦσαι; μὴ εἶπε, Πάτερ, κέλευσον τῷ ᾅδῃ, μὴ τὰς πύλας ἀποκλείσῃ, ἀλλὰ προθύμως τὸν νεκρὸν ἀποδοῦναι; Ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν περιεστῶτα τοῦτον ὄχλον εἶπον, φησὶν, ἵνα γνῶσι πάντες, ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας. Οὐκοῦν οὐκ ἔστι τὸ γινόμενον σημεῖον, ἀλλὰ κατήχησις τῶν παρόντων. Εἶδες πῶς οὐκ ἐγένετο ἡ προσευχὴ διὰ τὸν νεκρὸν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τοὺς παρόντας ἀπίστους, ἵνα γνῶσι, φησὶν, ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας. Καὶ πῶς ἔχομεν γνῶναι, φησὶν, ὅτι αὐτός σε ἀπέστειλε;

Πρόσεχε, παρακαλῶ, μετὰ πάσης ἀκριβείας. Ἰδοὺ, φησὶ, μετὰ τῆς ἐμῆς αὐθεντίας καλῶ τὸν νεκρόν· ἰδοὺ τῇ οἰκείᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ἐπιτάττω τῷ θανάτῳ· καλῶ τὸν Πατέρα πατέρα· καλῶ καὶ τὸν Λάζαρον ἐκ τοῦ τάφου. Εἰ οὐκ ἔστι τὸ πρῶτον ἀληθὲς, μηδὲ τοῦτο γενέσθω· εἰ δὲ ἀληθῶς ὁ Πατὴρ πατὴρ, ὑπακουέτω καὶ ὁ νεκρὸς πρὸς διδασκαλίαν τῶν παρόντων. Τί γὰρ ὁ Χριστὸς ἔλεγε; Λάζαρε, δεῦρο ἔξω. Ὅτε γέγονεν ἡ προσευχὴ, οὐκ ἀνέστη ὁ νεκρός· ἀλλ' ὅτε εἶπε, Λάζαρε, δεῦρο ἔξω, τότε ἀνέστη ὁ νεκρός. Ὢ τυραννὶς τοῦ θανάτου· ὢ τυραννὶς τῆς δυνάμεως ἐκείνης τῆς κατεχούσης τὴν ψυχήν· ὢ ᾅδη, προσευχὴ γέγονε, καὶ οὐκ ἀπολύεις τὸν νεκρόν; Οὐχὶ, φησί. ∆ιὰ τί; Ὅτι οὐ προσετάχθην. ∆έσμιός εἰμι αὐτόθι κατέχων τὸν ὑπεύθυνον· 48.784 ἐὰν μὴ προσταχθῶ, φησὶν, οὐκ ἀπολύω· ἡ γὰρ προσευχὴ, φησὶν, οὐ δι' ἐμὲ γέγονεν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τοὺς παρόντας ἀπίστους. Ἐγὼ γὰρ, ἐὰν μὴ προσταχθῶ, οὐκ ἀπολύω τὸν ὑπεύθυνον· ἀναμένω τὴν φωνὴν, ἵνα ἀπολύσω τὴν ψυχήν. Λάζαρε, δεῦρο ἔξω.