Our friend Lazarus sleepeth.

It seems probable that an interval had passed after Christ's last words. Christ was wont to speak of death as. sleep. See Mark 5:39. In the order of things over which he presides, death is death no longer, but assumes the character of. temporary slumber.-- Godet. To speak of death as. sleep, is an image common,. suppose, to all languages and nations. Thereby the reality of death is not denied, but only the fact implicitly assumed, that death, will be followed by. resurrection, as sleep is by an awakening.-- Trench. The term sleep is used as. symbol of death in 2 Chronicles 14:1. Psalms 13:8; Jeremiah 51:57; Job 14:12; Daniel 12:2; Matthew 27:52; Acts 7:60; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Thessalonians 4:13.

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