Lazarus

He hungered under the devil, he thirsted under the Samaritan woman, he wept over Lazarus, he trembled at death ("For the flesh," he says, "is weak"), at last he poured out blood.

But even this no otherwise in himself than in some Lazarus, whose flesh was not of the nature of soul, nor so his soul of the nature of flesh.

For that even now souls are tortured and cherished among the dead — though naked, though as yet exiles from the flesh — the example of Lazarus will prove.

But indeed in Lazarus, the chief example of resurrection, the flesh lay in weakness, the flesh had almost rotted into dishonour, the flesh meanwhile stank into corruption, and yet Lazarus rose as flesh — with the soul indeed, but the incorrupt one, which no one had bound with linen bands, no one had laid in a sepulchre, no one had now perceived to stink, no one had seen for four days sown.

For lo, to raise her brother from the dead, the Lord, looking up to heaven and to the Father, "Father," he says — surely the Son — "I thank you that you always hear me;

) And so the property of each substance is preserved, that the Spirit carried on its own things in him — that is, mighty works and operations and signs — and the flesh discharged its own passions, hungering under the devil, thirsting under the Samaritan woman, weeping for Lazarus, troubled even unto death, and finally even dying.

And what is the name of Lazarus doing there, if the matter is not real?

After each gulp of porter, he seemed to take a positive pride in yielding to the influences of flatulence in a series of reports which might have raised Lazarus.