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365 {3Jο 10, 39}3From which things he easily escapes them even against their will, it is shown that he would not have been caught unless willingly. 366 {3Jο 10, 40}3In order that he might remind the crowds of what John had said about him, he came there. Those who have crossed the mystical Jordan are brought away to God just as Christ also, having crossed the Jordan, came to the church of the Gentiles and remained there. 367 {3Jο 11, 2}3This is not she whom Matthew mentions and Luke; for those were prostitutes, whom Christ bore with through goodness. 368 {3Jο 11, 2}3In order that she might wipe a blessing from the holy flesh upon herself, she did this. 369 {3Jο 11, 4}3It is not unto eternal death, but for only four days. Since he arose after not long, looking to the end of the matter we say the sickness is not unto death. It was not of such glory and wonder to raise Lazarus from sickness, as it was for him to rise from the dead. 370 {3Jο 11, 6}3And for this reason he remained, so that he might die and be buried and the Jews might not say, that he raised him from a deep sleep. 371 {3Jο 11, 7}3For this reason he foretells, so that they might not be troubled when he suddenly departed for there

αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ταραχθῶσιν. 372 {3Jο 11, 8-9}3And as to "they are seeking to stone you" and what follows, since they were not yet perfected and thought that he suffered unwillingly, for him to say this: "Are there not twelve hours" and what follows. 373 {3Jο 11, 9}3Just as the day is unstable, passing from hour to hour, so also is the opinion of men, that is, of the Jews. If he who walks in the day does not stumble, how could I, who enlighten all, endure the things of the ill-advised? 374 {3Jο 11, 15}3He speaks as to one living, "let us go"; for to him he was living, as to God. 376 {3Jο 11, 16}3So that we may not appear unloving, let us hasten to the salvation of our friend, disregarding the plots of the Jews. 377 {3Jο 11, 25}3The Lord called himself Life, not a living being; for a living being is a recipient of life, but life is that which provides living, like wisdom and the wise man; the one receives, the other gives. 378 {3Jο 11, 31}3If this had not happened by the economy of God, the evangelist would not have mentioned it; but it happened, so that even unwillingly they might come and bear witness to the sign. 379 {3Jο 11, 33}3Christ, being grieved and seeing grief stirred in himself and his flesh inclining toward a tear, rebukes the flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit, which (flesh), not bearing the motion of the divinity united to him, trembles and gets the grief under control; for it was not fitting for him who was introducing the hope of the resurrection to weep over a dead person. 380 {3Jο 11, 34}3As one without ostentation he said this and he feigns to be ignorant because of the lowliness of human nature, he who knows all things as God, in order to draw many to the place. 381 {3Jο 11, 34}3Not as one who is ignorant does he ask, he who knew this from a great distance away, but so that on the pretext of showing the place they might come and see the sign. 382 {3Jο 11, 35}3Sympathizing with those who were weeping he wept, not for him whom he was about to raise. 383 {3Jο 11, 38}3Again he rebukes the passion, so that we may learn that he became man unchangeably, like us. 384 {3Jο 11, 39}3Because of the excessiveness of the miracle, in a certain way Martha again disbelieves. 385 {3Jο 11, 40}3The glory of God appears in things that are beyond nature. Because of the weakness of the hearers he says "the glory of the Father"; because he was not vainglorious he did not say "you will see my glory," but "that of the Father." 386 {3Jο 11, 41}3And being equal to the Father he gives thanks to him, so that we might give thanks to the one above ourselves. This is said among friends and those of equal honor. 387 {3Jο 11, 43}3As the soul was far away he calls with a loud cry, not, however, as though it were in the tomb, as the children of the Hellenes fable. And the cry of the Lord was a type of the "great trumpet" that is to sound at the general resurrection. And the command is befitting of God and kingly. 388 {3Jο 11, 44}3Thus also is the universal resurrection going to happen, "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." And a nearly similar sign of the resurrection was for him to come out walking with his hands and feet and eyes bound. By untying him they bore witness, that it was not a phantom, but it was Lazarus.

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365 {3Jο 10, 39}3Ἐξ ὧν εὐκόλως αὐτοὺς διαφεύγει καὶ ἀκόντων αὐτῶν, δείκνυται, ὅτι οὐκ ἂν ἑάλω εἰ μὴ ἑκών. 366 {3Jο 10, 40}3Ἵνα ἀναμνήσῃ τοὺς ὄχλους, ὧν εἶπεν περὶ αὐτοῦ ὁ Ἰωάννης, ἦλθεν ἐκεῖ. οἱ περάσαντες τὸν μυστικὸν Ἰορδάνην ἀποκομίζονται πρὸς θεὸν ὡς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς πέρασας τὸν Ἰορδάνην ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἔμεινεν ἐκεῖ. 367 {3Jο 11, 2}3Οὐκ ἔστιν αὕτη ἧς ὁ Ματθαῖος μέμνηται καὶ ὁ Λουκᾶς· ἐκεῖναι γὰρ πόρναι ἦσαν, ὧν ἠνέσχετο ὁ Χριστὸς δι' ἀγαθότητα. 368 {3Jο 11, 2}3Ἵνα εὐλογίαν ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας σαρκὸς ἀναμάξηται, ἐποίησεν τοῦτο. 369 {3Jο 11, 4}3Οὐκ ἔστι πρὸς διηνεκῆ θάνατον, ἀλλ' εἰς μόνας τέσσαρας ἡμέρας. ἐπειδὴ ἀνέστη μετ' οὐ πολύ, πρὸς τὸ πέρας ὁρῶντες τοῦ πράγματος λέγομεν μὴ εἶναι πρὸς θάνατον τὴν ἀσθένειαν. οὐ τοσαύτης ἦν δόξης καὶ θαύματος τὸ ἐγεῖραι τὸν Λάζαρον ἐκ τῆς νόσου, ὅσον τὸ ἀναστῆναι αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν. 370 {3Jο 11, 6}3∆ιὰ τοῦτο δὲ ἔμεινεν, ἵνα ἀποθάνῃ καὶ ταφῇ καὶ μὴ εἴπωσιν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, ὅτι καρωθέντα αὐτὸν ἀνέστησεν. 371 {3Jο 11, 7}3∆ιὰ τοῦτο προλέγει, ἵνα μὴ ἀθρόον ἀπελθόντος

αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ταραχθῶσιν. 372 {3Jο 11, 8-9}3Τὸ δὲ ζητοῦσί σε λιθάσαι καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ὡς μήπω ὄντες ἀπηρτισμένοι καὶ νομίζοντες, ὅτι καὶ ἄκων ἔπασχεν, εἰπεῖν αὐτὸν τοῦτο οὐχὶ δώδεκα ὧραί εἰσι καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. 373 {3Jο 11, 9}3Ὥσπερ ἄστατος ἡ ἡμέρα ἀπὸ ὥρας εἰς ὥραν μεταβαίνουσα, οὕτω καὶ ἡ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γνώμη, ὅ ἐστιν τῶν Ἰουδαίων. εἰ ὁ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ περιπατῶν οὐ προσκόπτει, πῶς ἐγὼ ὁ πάντας φωτίζων ὑπομένοιμι τὰ τῶν ἀβουλήτων; 374 {3Jο 11, 15}3Ὡς πρὸς ζῶντα λέγει, ὅτι ἄγωμεν· αὐτῷ γὰρ ἔζη ὡς θεῷ. 376 {3Jο 11, 16}3Ἵνα μὴ ἀφιλόστοργοι φανῶμεν, σπεύσωμεν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ φίλου ἡμῶν σω τηρίαν ὑπερορῶντες τῶν Ἰουδαϊκῶν ἐπιβουλῶν. 377 {3Jο 11, 25}3Ζωὴν ἑαυτὸν εἶπεν ὁ κύριος, οὐ ζῷον· τὸ μὲν γὰρ ζῷον δεκτικόν ἐστι ζωῆς, ἡ δὲ ζωὴ παρεκτικὴ τοῦ ζῆν ὡς ἡ σοφία καὶ ὁ σοφός· ὁ μὲν λαμβάνει, ἡ δὲ δίδωσιν. 378 {3Jο 11, 31}3Εἰ μὴ οἰκονομίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦτο ἐγεγόνει, οὐκ ἂν ἐμέμνητο αὐτοῦ ὁ εὐαγγελιστής· γέγονε δέ, ἵνα καὶ ἄκοντες παραγένωνται καὶ μαρτυρήσωσι τῷ σημείῳ. 379 {3Jο 11, 33}3Λυπηθεὶς ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ ὁρῶν ἐν ἑαυτῷ κινηθεῖσαν τὴν λύπην καὶ νεύουσαν τὴν σάρκα πρὸς δάκρυον ἐπιπλήττει τῇ σαρκὶ τῇ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος δυνάμει, ἥτις μὴ ἐνεγκοῦσα τὸ τῆς ἑνωθείσης αὐτῷ θεότητος κίνημα τρέμει καὶ τῆς λύπης περικρατεῖ· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἥρμοζεν ἐπὶ νεκρῷ δακρύειν τῷ τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς ἀναστάσεως εἰσάγοντι. 380 {3Jο 11, 34}3Ὡς ἀφιλόκομπος τοῦτο εἶπεν καὶ ἀγνοεῖν σχηματίζεται διὰ τὸ τῆς ἀνθρω πίνης φύσεως ταπεινὸν ὁ πάντα εἰδὼς ὡς θεός, ἵνα πολλοὺς ἑλκύσῃ εἰς τὸν τόπον. 381 {3Jο 11, 34}3Οὐχ ὡς ἀγνοῶν ἐρωτᾷ ὁ πρὸ πολλοῦ διαστήματος τοῦτο εἰδώς, ἀλλ' ἵνα προφάσει τοῦ ὑποδεῖξαι τὸν τόπον ἔλθωσιν καὶ ἴδωσιν τὸ σημεῖον. 382 {3Jο 11, 35}3Συμπαθήσας τοῖς δακρύουσιν ἐδάκρυσεν, οὐχ ὃν ἔμελλεν ἀνιστᾶν. 383 {3Jο 11, 38}3Πάλιν ἐπιτιμᾷ τῷ πάθει, ἵνα μάθωμεν, ὅτι ἄνθρωπος γέγονεν ἀτρέπτως ὡς ἡμεῖς. 384 {3Jο 11, 39}3∆ιὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τοῦ θαύματος τρόπον τινὰ πάλιν ἀπιστεῖ ἡ Μάρθα. 385 {3Jο 11, 40}3Ἐν τοῖς ὑπὲρ φύσιν φαίνεται ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ δόξα. διὰ τὸ ἀσθενὲς τῶν ἀκροατῶν τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς δόξαν φησίν, διὰ τὸ ἀκενόδοξον οὐκ εἶπεν ὄψει τὴν δόξαν μου, ἀλλὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρός. 386 {3Jο 11, 41}3Ἴσος δὲ ὢν τῷ πατρὶ εὐχαριστεῖ αὐτῷ, ἵνα ἡμεῖς τῷ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοὺς εὐχα ριστῶμεν. τοῦτο ἐπὶ φίλων λέγεται καὶ ὁμοτίμων. 387 {3Jο 11, 43}3Ὡς πόρρωθεν οὖσαν τὴν ψυχὴν διὰ κραυγῆς καλεῖ, οὐ μὴν ὡς οὖσαν ἐν τῷ μνήματι, ὡς Ἑλλήνων μυθεύουσι παῖδες. ἡ δὲ κραυγὴ τοῦ κυρίου τύπος ἦν τῆς «μεγάλης σάλπιγγος» τῆς μελλούσης ἠχῆσαι ἐν τῇ κοινῇ ἀναστάσει. θεοπρεπὲς δὲ καὶ βασιλικὸν τὸ κέλευσμα. 388 {3Jο 11, 44}3Οὕτω καὶ ἡ καθολικὴ μέλλει γενέσθαι ἀνάστασις «ἐν ἀτόμῳ, ἐν ῥιπῇ ὀφθαλμοῦ». ὅμοιον δὲ σημεῖον σχεδὸν τῆς ἀναστάσεως τὸ δεδεμένων τῶν χειρῶν καὶ τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐξελθεῖν περιπατοῦντα. διὰ τοῦ λύειν ἐμαρτύρουν, ὅτι οὐκ ἦν φάντασμα, ἀλλ' ὁ Λάζαρος ἦν.