The Miracle of Lazarus at the Meal
Having laughed, having been dismissed as an unworthy guest among the ght him again into the midst and, presenting him before all those who were dining, enumerated him by name. For the goal of the Evangelist is not to embellish the one being evangelized through associations and dining with glorious persons, nor to forbid those who are blessed, but to make God known to all as the wonder-worker through his own works.
It was therefore a work of Christ, and the greatest of works is the raising of Lazarus, who had been stripped and had been turned to corruption (John 11). Because of this, he shows him dining with the Lord, and makes the wonder known to the inhabited world without illusion, and he makes a feast of the paradox, that of that bright feast, in which spiritual food was offered to the diners as an early welcome, the paradox of that extraordinary banquet in which the pleasure of the stomach was attained and the souls of those reclining feasted.
Greek
διαγελάσαντα, τῶν σπαργάνων ἀξένων ἀπολυθέντα, εἰς μέσον αὖθις παρήγαγεν καὶ πάντας τοὺς συνεσθίοντας παραδραμὼν, τοῦτον ἐξ ὀνόματος ἀπηρίθμησεν· σκοπὸς γὰρ τῷ εὐαγγελιστῇ, οὐκ ἐν προσώπων ἐνδόξων συνδιατρίβαις καὶ συνεστιάσεσι κατακαλλῦναι τὸν εὐαγγελιζόμενον δι' αὐτοῦ, οὐδὲ κεχαρισμένα διαγορεῦσαι, ἀλλ' ἐξ οἰκείων ἔργων πᾶσι γνωστὸν τὸν θαυματουργὸν καταστῆσαι θεόν. 3 Ἔργον δὲ ἄρα ἦν Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἔργων τὸ μέγιστον ἡ τοῦ ἐκλελυμένου καὶ εἰς φθορὰν κεχωνευμένου Λαζάρου ἔγερσις. ∆ιά τοι τοῦτο καὶ συνδειπνοῦντα τῷ Κυρίῳ δείκνυσι, καὶ ἀφαντασίαστον τὸ θαῦμα δημοσιεύει τῇ οἰκουμένῃ, καὶ εὐωχίαν ποιεῖται τὸ παράδοξον τὸ τῆς λαμπρᾶς ἐκείνης εὐωχίας, ἐν ᾗ ὡς πρώϊμον ξένιον Λάζαρος προύκειτο πνευματικὴ τροφὴ τοῖς δαιτυμόσι, τὸ τοῦ παραδόξου ἐκείνου δείπνου ἐν ᾧ ἡδονὴ γαστρὸς ἐπεσχέθη καὶ εὐωχήθησαν ψυχαὶ ἀνακειμένων, τὸ τῆς
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Eustathius on the raising of Lazarus and the two natures.
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- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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