When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Wherefore tarried He? That Lazarus might breathe his last, and be buried; that none might be able to assert that He restored him when not yet dead, saying that it was a lethargy, a fainting, a fit, but not death. On this account He tarried so long, that corruption began, and they said, He now stinks.
