And he came and touched the coffin: and they that bore him stood still. And he said,
Young man, I say unto you, Arise.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Here Christ shows that he raised the dead by his own power, and at his own command: I say to thee, arise. This shows that it is the voice of God that speaks; for the dead can hear the voice of him alone, according to St. John. Amen, I say to you, the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they who hear shall live. (St. John v. 25.) (Maldonatus)
Our Saviour is not like Elias, weeping for the son of the widow of Sarepta; nor Eliseus, who applied his own body to the body of the dead child; nor Peter, who prayed for Tabitha: but he it is that calls the things that are not, as those that are; who speaks to the dead as to the living. (Titus Bostrensis)
