the Father to have made the soul of Lazarus return 28.9.69 to his body which was laid away in the tomb; for one might say that the Father, having heard the praying Son, raised Lazarus from the dead; but he who spoke with a loud voice and cried, "Lazarus, come forth," fulfilled what he had previously announced: "But I am going that I may awaken 28.9.70 him." And the one who argues this, making a distinction between "Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep" and "Lazarus has died," will say that in response to "He has fallen asleep" He promised, saying, "But I am going that I may awaken him"; but in response to "He has died" he did not give 28.9.71 the "I am going, that I may raise him from the dead." But the one who resolves the seeming difference in these things and holds that the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead was a common work of the Son who prayed and of the Father who heard will also use what was said by the Lord to Martha when He said: "I am the resurrection and the life," and he will also cite, "For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will." 28.10.n Many of the Jews therefore, who had come to Mary and seen what he did, believed in him. 28.10.72 And whom would it not move to believe in the preaching of Jesus and truly, as if from death and stench, when those who have been completely submerged by evil, with the utmost change, shake off, by the command and cooperation of the Word, not only the great stench from sin but also the bonds that hold fast the progressive and active power of the soul, and furthermore 28.10.73 besides these, also the contemplative? For being astonished, those who saw Jesus being so powerful in such matters, those who boast of being occupied with the word of God, but have not yet accepted the fullness of the Word, would especially believe, as many as have come as if to one dead and altogether despaired of, having themselves despaired of such a one, to console her who was grieving over the fall of her brother; for whose sake perhaps more than for the sake of the one who had suffered these things, having come to the cave of the dead man, "He lifted his eyes upward and said: Father, I thank 28.10.74 you that you have heard me. But I knew that you always hear me." For that he uttered this thanksgiving to the Father for their sake rather than for Lazarus's is clear from, "But because of the crowd 28.10.75 standing by I said it, that they may believe that you sent me." He therefore took pains concerning Lazarus for the sake of the crowd standing by, so that the many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did might believe in him. 28.11.76 But hear also concerning these things, not only in a more corporeal sense: "But some of them went to the Pharisees and 28.11.77 told them what Jesus had done." The wording has a certain ambiguity, whether those who went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done were from the many Jews, those who had seen what he did and believed in him, wishing to put to shame even those who were hostilely disposed toward him through the report concerning Lazarus; or the others besides the many who believed, as not having been moved by what happened to faith in Jesus, so that as far as it was in their power, they were stirring up against him among the Pharisees the wicked zeal that was in them through the report concerning Lazarus 28.11.78. And it seems to me that the 28.11.79 evangelist rather wishes to signify this. Therefore what is added is, "So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered," and so on. He said, then, that many were those who believed because of seeing the things concerning Lazarus; but he said that those who were not such were, as it were, fewer, saying, "But some of them went away" and 28.11.80 so on. But attend also to what will be said, if it can move us to assent, since it is not said: many therefore of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he did, believed in him; but it is written: "Many therefore of the Jews who

πατέρα πεποιηκέναι τὴν Λαζάρου ψυχὴν ἐπανελθεῖν 28.9.69 ἐπὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ μνημείῳ ἀποκείμενον αὐτοῦ σῶμα· εἴποι γὰρ ἄν τις ὅτι ὁ μὲν ἀκούσας εὐξαμένου τοῦ υἱοῦ πατὴρ ἐκ νεκρῶν τὸν Λάζαρον ἀνέστησεν· ὁ δὲ εἰπὼν φωνῇ μεγάλῃ καὶ κραυγάσας· «Λάζαρε, δεῦρο «ἔξω» ἐπλήρωσεν ὃ προεπηγγείλατο· «Ἀλλὰ πορεύομαι ἵνα ἐξυπνίσω 28.9.70 «αὐτόν.» καὶ ὁ τοῦτό γε κατασκευάζων, διαφορὰν διδοὺς τοῦ «Λάζαρος «ὁ φίλος ἡμῶν κεκοίμηται» καὶ τοῦ «Λάζαρος ἀπέθανεν», ἐρεῖ ὅτι πρὸς μὲν τὸ «Κεκοίμηται» ἐπηγγείλατο εἰπών· «Ἀλλὰ πορεύομαι «ἵνα ἐξυπνίσω αὐτόν»· πρὸς δὲ τὸ «Ἀπέθανεν» οὐκ ἀποδέδωκεν 28.9.71 τὸ "7Πορεύομαι, ἵνα ἀναστήσω αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν"7. ἀλλὰ ὁ λύων τὴν ἐν τούτοις δοκοῦσαν εἶναι διαφορὰν καὶ διδοὺς τὴν τοῦ Λαζάρου ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν κοινὸν ἔργον γεγονέναι υἱοῦ τοῦ εὐξαμένου καὶ πατρὸς τοῦ ἐπακούσαντος χρήσεται καὶ τῷ εἰρημένῳ ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου πρὸς τὴν Μάρθαν λέγοντος· «Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀνάστασις καὶ ἡ «ζωή», παραθήσεται δὲ καὶ τὸ «Ὥσπερ γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ ἐγείρει τοὺς «νεκροὺς καὶ ζωοποιεῖ, οὕτως καὶ ὁ υἱὸς οὓς θέλει ζωοποιεῖ.» 28.10.n Πολλοὶ οὖν ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, οἱ ἐλθόντες πρὸς τὴν Μαριὰμ καὶ θεασάμενοι ἃ ἐποίησεν, ἐπίστευσαν εἰς αὐτόν. 28.10.72 Καὶ τίνα γε οὐκ ἂν κινήσαι πρὸς τὸ πιστεῦσαι τῷ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ κηρύγματι καὶ ἀληθῶς, ὡσπερεὶ ἐκ νεκρότητος καὶ δυσωδίας, τῶν πάνυ ὑπὸ τῆς κακίας καταβεβαπτισμένων, ἀκροτάτῃ μεταβολῇ ἀποσεισαμένων τῇ προστάξει καὶ συνεργείᾳ τοῦ λόγου οὐ μόνον τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας πολλὴν δυσωδίαν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς κατέχοντας δεσ μοὺς τὴν πορευτικὴν καὶ τὴν δραστικὴν τῆς ψυχῆς δύναμιν, ἔτι δὲ 28.10.73 χωρὶς τούτων καὶ τὴν θεωρητικήν; καταπλαγέντες γὰρ οἱ ἰδόντες τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις τοσοῦτον δεδυνημένον, οἱ αὐχοῦντες μὲν περὶ λόγον ἀσχολεῖσθαι θεοῦ, τὸ πλήρωμα δὲ τοῦ λόγου μηδέπω παραδεξάμενοι, καὶ πιστεύσαιεν ἂν μάλιστα ὅσοι ἐληλύθασιν ὡς ἐπὶ νεκρῷ καὶ πάντη ἀπεγνωσμένῳ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀπογνόντες τὸν τοιοῦτον, παραμυθήσασθαι τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκπτώσει τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ὀδυνωμένην· δι' οὓς τάχα πλέον ἢ διὰ τὸν ταῦτα παθόντα ἐλθὼν ἐπὶ τὸ σπήλαιον τοῦ νεκροῦ «Ἦρεν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἄνω καὶ εἶπεν· Πάτερ, εὐχαριστῶ 28.10.74 «σοι, ὅτι ἤκουσάς μου. ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις». ὅτι γὰρ διὰ τούτους μᾶλλον ἢ τὸν Λάζαρον ταύτην ἀνεφθέγξατο πρὸς τὸν πατέρα τὴν εὐχαριστίαν δῆλον ἐκ τοῦ «Ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν περιε 28.10.75 «στῶτα εἶπον, ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας». ἐπραγματεύ σατο οὖν περὶ τοῦ Λαζάρου διὰ τὸν περιεστῶτα ὄχλον, ἵν' οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐλθόντες πρὸς τὴν Μαριὰμ καὶ θεασάμενοι ἃ ἐποίησεν πιστεύσωσιν εἰς αὐτόν. 28.11.76 Ἀλλὰ ἄκουε καὶ περὶ τούτων, μὴ μόνον σωματικώ τερον· «Τινὲς δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπῆλθον πρὸς τοὺς Φαρισαίους καὶ 28.11.77 «εἶπον αὐτοῖς ἃ ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς». ἔχει μέν τι ἡ λέξις ἀμφίβολον, πότερον οἱ ἀπελθόντες πρὸς τοὺς Φαρισαίους καὶ εἰπόντες αὐτοῖς ἃ ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τῶν πολλῶν Ἰουδαίων ἦσαν, τῶν θεασαμένων ἃ ἐποίησεν καὶ πιστευσάντων εἰς αὐτόν, βουλόμενοι καὶ τοὺς ἐχθρῶς διακειμένους πρὸς αὐτὸν δυσωπῆσαι διὰ τῆς περὶ τοῦ Λαζάρου ἀπαγγελίας· ἢ οἱ λοιποὶ παρὰ τοὺς πολλοὺς καὶ πιστεύ σαντας, ὡς μὴ κινηθέντες ἐκ τοῦ γενομένου εἰς τὴν περὶ Ἰησοῦ πί στιν, ὅτι τὸ ὅσον ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς καὶ πρὸς * κατ' αὐτοῦ τοὺς Φαρισαίους τὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς πονηρὸν ζῆλον ἐγείροντες διὰ τῆς περὶ τοῦ Λαζάρου 28.11.78 ἀπαγγελίας. καὶ δοκεῖ μοι τοῦτο μᾶλλον βούλεσθαι σημαίνειν ὁ 28.11.79 εὐαγγελιστής. διὸ καὶ ἐπιφέρεται τὸ «Συνήγαγον οὖν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς «καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. πολλοὺς μὲν οὖν εἶπεν τοὺς διὰ τὸ θεάσασθαι τὰ περὶ τὸν Λάζαρον πιστεύσαντας· ὡσπερεὶ δὲ ὀλιγωτέρους ἔφησεν εἶναι τοὺς μὴ τοιούτους, εἰπών· «Τινὲς δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπῆλθον» καὶ 28.11.80 τὰ ἑξῆς. πρόσχες δὲ καὶ τοῖς λεχθησομένοις εἰ δύναται ἡμᾶς κινῆσαι πρὸς συγκατάθεσιν, ἐπεὶ μὴ εἴρηται μέν· πολλοὶ οὖν ἐκ τῶν Ἰου δαίων τῶν ἐλθόντων πρὸς τὴν Μαριὰμ καὶ θεασαμένων ἃ ἐποίησεν, ἐπίστευσαν εἰς αὐτόν· γέγραπται δέ· «Πολλοὶ οὖν ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων «οἱ