The resurrection of righteous Lazarus. Patristic interpretations of difficult passages

Few people know about Lazarus syndrome. There are only 38 cases of this phenomenon recorded in the world. Let us consider more specifically its significance for science and life. This phenomenon is extremely rare and there is also very little information about it. The only thing we can say for sure is that it exists. But until recently, science could not explain it. The whole explanation is based on individual characteristics person.

What it is?

This syndrome is also called the resurrection of Lazarus. That is, the possibility of resurrection, as such, does not exist, it’s just that each individual has different autoresuscitation and sometimes there is a violation of venous circulation. Such patients have no signs of life for 10 minutes. Heart start uses an electrical device to start circulation to life support organs within 60 seconds. However, in patients with Lazarus syndrome, this occurs much longer, so they should be monitored for a longer period of time. Since the start of the heart can occur spontaneously at any minute. After a set time, death is declared.

Where does the name come from?

Why did Lazarus syndrome get its name? Everything is very simple. That was the name of the man whom Jesus Christ brought back to life. This event is mentioned in the Bible. From a scientific point of view, this is the restoration of spontaneous circulation after stopping cardiopulmonary resuscitation. But this also happens without the participation of resuscitation actions. They first started talking about this term in 1982. Until this moment, there were cases when death was recorded in a completely healthy person.

Scientific data

As mentioned earlier, science knows of only 38 cases in which a person came back to life. All situations are very individual. They took place both in the hospital and outside it. All patients had completely different diseases, therefore, different life support. The time of cardiac arrest and the functioning of the entire body as a whole also varies, the time period is from 6 to 75 minutes. Of course, if doctors did not know about the syndrome, then people would be declared dead.

Alleged factors

How is Lazarus syndrome explained in medicine? Many scientists agree that the fault may be the improper functioning of the human pulmonary system. What could be the reason for poor blood circulation in the venous system, which could affect the heart rhythm? The work of the heart can be restored only after the obstacles to oxygen access to it are removed.

What does autoresuscitation mean after cardiac arrest? With autoresuscitation, pulseless electrical activity is possible, but it is extremely important not to overdo the pulmonary resuscitation ventilation. Experts advise stopping the resuscitation process for a moment in order to give time to the venous system and the heart to start working on their own. No more than 30 seconds are allotted for this; if the resurrection of Lazarus does not occur, that is, the resumption of heart function, then artificial resuscitation continues.

Causes

Many doctors seek to apply this theory to patients who do not suffer from pulmonary disease. In practice, there is an explanation for the syndrome:

1. Slow exposure medicines. During the restoration of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest, the patient is given drugs that can resuscitate the cardiopulmonary system. But each body reacts differently to drugs, so there may be a delay in the delivery of necessary substances to the heart.

2. Hyperkalemia. A fairly common case is when an existing disease prevents myocardial contraction.

3. Ischemia can lead to myocardial dysfunction, this condition persists for several hours, and then normal heart function is restored.

4. Asystole. Ventricular fibrillation occurs, then asystole occurs. In most cases, this condition is fatal. And only in 15% of patients the heart rhythm is restored.

Lazarus syndrome - consequences

This fact has serious medical consequences and also leads to legal consequences for personnel. Doctors undergo a thorough check, and the entire process of resuscitation is clarified. For example, how were the work carried out to resuscitate the patient’s cardiopulmonary system? How long did the work to restore spontaneous circulation last? What medications were used after stopping?

The medical team may be accused of negligence and failure to fulfill its obligations. There may also be accusations of incompetence, which may lead to removal from work, or a claim from relatives against the medical staff for financial compensation. Criminal charges may be brought against workers who performed CPR work. A patient may be charged with manslaughter if all requirements to restore life support are not met.

Of course, there is also a risk for the patient of severe disorders. Relatives may accuse doctors of harming the patient's health after delaying the restoration of spontaneous circulation after death. Health care providers should be extremely careful when recording all resuscitation actions following cardiopulmonary arrest in the patient's chart.

Doctors' actions

What is death? This is a process in which the main important life support organs are damaged and lead to cardiac and respiratory failure. But these data are not entirely correct for ascertaining death in humans. Since today there is a concept of the Lazarus phenomenon. Therefore, it is worth waiting at least 10 minutes before confirming that a person has died. During this time, the patient's family should be aware of his condition. The doctor must tell you in detail what happened and what consequences may arise. What work is being done or will happen in the future. Relatives should know that their loved one is being constantly monitored to ensure that the time of death is recorded without any errors. Because in addition to stopping the heart and lungs, the brain must stop working. Then one can unmistakably state the death of a person. The doctor is also obliged to express condolences to the relatives of the deceased and provide medical support if needed.

There are many cases in history when people were buried alive. Since the phenomenon of Lazarus was not yet known to anyone. And today, many scientists refute it or question it, trying to find reasonable explanations for this fact. But still, most doctors agree that this phenomenon exists and must be taken into account. The main thing is that there are no obvious errors in the actions of the team of doctors. They must comply with all requirements for the return of the body’s vital functions.

Conclusion

So, Lazarus syndrome is a delayed return of spontaneous circulation after stopping cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A reversible consequence of resuscitation actions may be dynamic hyperventilation of the body's pulmonary system. After cardiac and pulmonary arrest, the patient should be observed for at least 10 minutes. In this case, it must be connected to monitors that measure blood pressure and ECG, after which, if the vital organs do not begin to circulate, then death can be declared.

(John 5:25)

I. Faith in Moses and the prophets, healing of the man born blind,
parable of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus

“If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets,
then even if someone were to rise from the dead, they wouldn’t believe it»
(Luke 16:31)

The Lord performed an unimaginable number of miracles over the people of Israel. But the greatest of all is the resurrection of Lazarus. Marvelous catcher of men He chose the rebellious Jews as eyewitnesses of the miracle, and they themselves showed the coffin of the deceased, rolled away the stone from the entrance to the cave, and inhaled the stench of the decomposing body. With our own ears we heard the call to the dead man to rise, with our own eyes we saw his first steps after resurrection, with our own hands we untied the burial shrouds, making sure that this was not a ghost.

So, did all the Jews believe in Christ? - Not at all. But we went to the bosses and “ from that day they decided to kill Jesus"(John 11:53). This confirmed the correctness of the Lord, who spoke through the mouth of Abraham in the parable of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus: “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, then even if someone were raised from the dead, they will not believe"(Luke 16:31). But Israel was waiting for the Messiah at this very time. The Jews knew that the seventy-seven years prophesied by Daniel from the decree of restoration were coming to an end. Jerusalem Temple before the anointing of the Holy One (Dan. 9:24), that the royal scepter left the descendants of Judah (Gen. 49:10), and the Teacher appeared in Nazareth, at whose word the dead are raised and lepers are cleansed. " Search the Scriptures...they testify of Me"(John 5:39) - Christ addressed the experts of the Scriptures. But they did not believe the clear prophecies and demanded miracles And signs from heaven. When the Lord worked miracles, they did not believe them either.

The resurrection of Lazarus is inseparable from another miracle that shook Israel - the healing of a man born blind (see John 9: 1-41). If the healing of a diseased eye can still be attributed to human medical art, then the establishment of vision can only be attributed to Divine action. The Jews rejected this miracle, because “ They did not believe that he (the man born blind) was blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of this man who had received his sight and asked them: Is this your son, about whom you say that he was born blind? How can he see now?"(John 9: 18-19).

- How does he see? “Obviously,” we will answer, “by the power of the One who raised the dead, commanded the elements, multiplied the grain, cast out demons, and walked on water.” By the power of the One who was free to create another unheard-of miracle - to resurrect the decaying dead and thereby reveal His Divinity, to make the Jews unresponsive, to preach the destruction of Hell to the dead, and to the living - a general resurrection.

II. Raising Lazarus
like a great and unprecedented miracle

The Lord, having learned from the envoys Martha and Mary about the illness of Lazarus, came to Bethany only on the third day after his death, having stayed “two days in that place"(John 11:6). The Lord's Delay The Holy Fathers agree to explain coming to the aid of a friend with the desire to resurrect a real dead man, four days old and stinking - a miracle hitherto unknown to Israel: “Why? 'stayed'? In order for him to die and be buried, so that later no one could say that He resurrected him when he had not yet died, that it was only deep sleep, or relaxation, or deprivation of senses, but not death. For this reason He remained for so long that even decay occurred, so that they said: ‘already stinks’(John 11:39)."

Saint Amphilochius of Iconium describes this miracle very figuratively: “Only the Lord cried out: ‘Lazarus, get out!’(John 11:43), and immediately the body was filled with life, the hair grew again, the proportions of the body came into proper proportion, the veins were again filled with pure blood. Hell, struck to the very depths, released Lazarus. The soul of Lazarus, again returned and called by the holy angels, united with its own body."

It had happened before that the greatest prophets of Israel raised the dead, but they never raised those whose bodies had been touched by corruption. “Whoever sees, whoever hears, as if rising man dead stinking? Elijah was raised up and Elisha, but not from the grave, but below the four days,” proclaims the Holy Church through the mouth of St. Andrew of Crete at Compline on the heel of the week.

The miracle of the resurrection was joined by another miracle - Lazarus, « entwined hand and foot with burial shrouds"(John 11:44), moved freely: “Lazarus’s foot was bound as he walked, a miracle within miracles: for when he appeared in pain, he strengthened the one who rebuked, and Christ also strengthened Him: all servilely serve His word, as if they were working for God and the Master.”

III. The Raising of Lazarus as a Manifestation
true Incarnation of Jesus Christ

According to teaching Orthodox Church, expressed in the hymns of Lazarus Saturday, Christ revealed his true Divinity and humanity in the resurrection of Lazarus: “Assuring the Word that Thy Resurrection is Thy Resurrection, Thou called Lazarus from the tomb, and raised Thou up as God, so that He might show people that God and Man together truly exist.” By offering two of Your actions, You showed the essence of the Savior’s beings: You are God and Man”, “You showed the Divine knowledge of the Divine to everyone, raising the four-day-old Lazarus Master from the dead”, “Thou true God, Thou didst know Lazarus’s dormition, and Thou didst proclaim this to Thy disciple , assuring the Lord of His Divinity of His indefinite action."

« Then Jesus told them directly: Lazarus is dead"(John 11:14).
God's omniscience

In these words of Jesus Christ, who was physically far from the place of his friend’s illness and death, God’s omniscience was revealed: “Also, as an apostle, as a seer of God, you predicted the death of Lazarus. In Bethany, be present as a people, You are not an unknown friend of Your tomb, You asked as a Man. But by You He was resurrected for four days, manifest Your Divine power.”

« Jesus shed tears"(John 11:35).
Non-ghostly incarnation

The Savior’s tears testified to His true, and not illusory, Incarnation, as St. John Chrysostom writes about this: “Why does the evangelist carefully and more than once notice that He wept and that He held back grief? So that you might know that He was truly clothed with our nature.” The creators of the canons of Vaiya Week and Lazarus Saturday, the Venerables Andrew of Crete, John of Damascus, Cosmas of Mayum and Theophan the Inscribed, with great tenderness and heartfelt feeling, describe the tears of the God-Man: “Thou didst shed tears, O Lord, over Lazarus, showing the embodiment of Thy gaze, and as by nature He is God, by nature You were a Man to us”, “Having shed tears of contemplation over a friend, you showed the flesh taken from us, a being not in the opinion of the Savior, united to You, and as the Lover of Mankind, God, having proclaimed this, You raised up”, “Presenting You to the tomb of the miracle-working Lord, in Bethany You shed tears over Lazarus, by the law of nature, assuring your flesh, Jesus my God, even as you accepted it.” shed tears, and prophesy, my Savior, showing Your human action: but manifesting the Divine, you raise up Lazarus.”

However, some circumstances of the miracle could give rise to doubt about the Divinity of the Savior. Indeed, why would the Omniscient God ask the Jews about Lazarus: “ where did you put it"(John 11:34)? Why would the Almighty pray to anyone to perform a miracle (John 11:41-42)? In the 4th century, the Anomeans justified their heresy with similar arguments, denying not only the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son, but also the very similarity of the Son to the Father. Until our time, Jews and Gnostics have slyly asked about this.

« Where did you put it?"(John 11:34).
Jews are the main witnesses

Indeed, why should the Omniscient God ask where Lazarus was laid: “A strange and glorious miracle, like the Creator of all, who is not ignorant, as if he were ignorant and asked: where lies he, for whom you are weeping? Where is Lazarus buried? Little by little I will raise him alive for you from the dead.”

It's clear that Christ's supposed ignorance has nothing to do with it, as Chrysostom writes about this: “You say, Jew, that Christ did not know this if he said: ‘ where did you put it?’ So the Father did not know in paradise where Adam hid, if He walked as if looking for him in paradise, and said: ‘ Adam where are you(Gen. 3:9)?’ ... What will you say when you hear God saying to Cain: ‘ where is Abel your brother(Gen. 4:9)?’ … If that means ignorance, then this also means ignorance.”

For what then Is the Lord asking about this? According to the thoughts of Saints John Chrysostom and Basil the Great, Saints Andrew of Crete and Ephraim the Syrian, the question “ Where did you put it?“, was asked with only one purpose: to bring the questioning Jews to the place of the planned miracle as witnesses of the resurrection: “Of course, this gives a reason to the daring interrogators, but it is clearer than the sun that He had no need to ask. And by what he said ‘ Where did they put it?’ wanted to confirm that Lazarus was indeed buried. He asked not about ‘where is the coffin?’, but about ‘where they laid the dead man?’. He knew the stubbornness of the Jews with which they denied His glorious deeds and connected with His question ‘ Where was the deceased laid?’ I didn’t ask about where Lazarus was laid or buried, but ‘ where did they put it?’ Show Me this yourself, unbelievers.» .

Strange prayer.
Unity of the will of the Father and the Son

« Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father! I thank You that You heard Me. I knew that You would always hear Me; but I said [this] for the people standing here, so that they might believe that You sent Me"(John 11: 41-42).

Before we understand for whom this prayer was created and whether it was needed for the resurrection of Lazarus, let us ask ourselves the question: did His Son humiliate prayer appeal to the Father? The Anomean heretics believed that yes, it was humiliating: “How can one who prays be like one who receives prayer? One prays, and another receives prayer,” just as the one who serves is less than the one whom he serves. However, Christ, who came " not to be served, but to serve and give His soul as a ransom for many"(Mark 10:45), with his own hands he washed the feet of the twelve apostles, among whom was Judas: " and you are clean, but not all. For He knew His betrayer"(John 13: 10-11). But, obviously, Christ is higher than the Apostles and, especially, the traitor Judas, which means that His prayer to the Father in no way diminished His Divine dignity.

The Anomeans saw in the prayer of Jesus the source of the miracles He performed: “If He had not prayed, He would not have raised Lazarus.” However, Christ performed many miracles without praying to anyone. Saint John Chrysostom lists: “How could He do anything else without prayer, saying, for example: I tell you, demon, ‘come out of him’(Mark 9:25), and also: ‘ I want you to cleanse yourself’ (Mark 1:41), also: ‘ take up your bed and walk’ (John 5:8), and: ‘ your sins are forgiven you’ (Matthew 9:2), and saying to the sea: ‘ shut up, stop’ (Mark 4:39)”?

Let's ask again Did Lazarus resurrect after this prayer?- Obviously not: “When the prayer was completed, the dead did not rise; and when He said: ‘ Lazarus, get out!’, then the dead rose again. Oh hell! The prayer has been completed and you do not release the dead? - No, says hell. Why? - Because I was not given orders. I am the guard who holds the guilty here; if I don’t receive a command, then I don’t let go; the prayer was not for me, but for the infidels present; without receiving a command, I do not release the culprit; I’m waiting for a voice to free my soul.”

Let us read carefully the words of Christ’s prayer: “ Father! I thank You that You heard Me. I knew that You would always hear Me; but I said [this] for the people standing here, so that they might believe that You sent Me"(John 11: 41-42).

There is no petition here to the Father to resurrect the deceased Lazarus, to loosen the shackles of death, to restore the decayed body and return the soul to it. There is no petition at all in this prayer, which means that it was not the source of the miracle. This means that this prayer did not testify to the imaginary inequality of the Son to the Father, but to the unity of the will and nature of the Father and the Son, as St. Andrew writes about this: “This is what He says to the Jews, showing that He came from heaven, and that He is the Son of God and God, and that he creates everything according to the intention of the Father, as having one will and nature with Him. And since he was a man, he speaks like a man, so that the incarnation would not seem unimportant.”

— Why then did Christ pray?

- For the sake of Martha, who asked: "God! If you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask God, God will give you.”(John 11:21-22). Martha asked Christ to pray - the Lord prayed.

- For the sake of the Jews, through their lips they cunningly honored the Father, but did not recognize the Son: “Honoring Your Father, and showing that You are not opposed to God, you prayed to Christ, and autocratically raised up the four-dayer.”

IV. The resurrection of Lazarus as the beginning of the destruction of hell
and the image of the future resurrection of the dead

"The time is coming when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God, and when they hear, they will live.”
(John 5:25)

Through the fall of Adam and Eve, death entered the world. All people, including the Old Testament righteous men and prophets, went to hell upon their death. His power seemed so unshakable and eternal that even among God’s chosen people there appeared a considerable number of those who “ said that there is no resurrection, no angel, no spirit"(Acts 23:8). And the Sadducees, and Martha, and all of us who read the gospel lines, should have been taught the resurrection, assuring in its reality: “Assuring the general resurrection before Your passion, You raised Lazarus from the dead, O Christ our God.” At Lazarus the prophetic words of the Lord spoken by Him earlier were fulfilled: “The time is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and having heard, they will live.”(John 5:25).

By the resurrection of the decaying dead, the foundations of hell were shaken, and hope appeared for those languishing in it. In the canon for Compline, the heel of the week, the Church depicts hell as a jealous creature, which for the first time in millennia of dominion over the dead was afraid of the destruction of its own possessions and therefore is ready to sacrifice one captive, just not to lose many: “I pray to you Lazarus, speak of hell, arise, come out from the rivets of mine soon, go away: the goodness of me alone is to be taken away from the weeping of a mountaineer, rather than all those whom I have first devoured with hunger”, “Why did not Lazarus rise up soon, crying out from the depths of hell? Why didn’t Abiye rise from here? May Christ not take others captive by resurrecting you.” The Holy Fathers unanimously note that if the Lord had not called on a specific name, all hell would have been prematurely empty, for then all the dead would have been resurrected: “So that, turning his speech generally to the dead, He would not call everyone from the graves, that’s why He says: ‘ Lazarus, get out!’, you alone I call in the presence of this people » .

In the resurrection of Lazarus, the Lord clearly showed the features of the general resurrection - a great and terrible sacrament that will happen on the last day. So, talking about universality of the resurrection, the Monk Ephraim the Syrian notes that it was no coincidence that the Lord raised three people: a girl who had just fallen asleep, a young man carried to the cemetery, and the decaying Lazarus: “In the house, on the way and from the grave He brought the dead back to life, in order to place them on the whole road of death way, to dispel the hope of life along the entire path of the dead, and at the beginning, and in the middle, and at the end of it, to reveal the resurrection.” Like the resurrection of Lazarus, the universal the resurrection will happen in the blink of an eye. For the stench of the decomposing body had not disappeared from the cave, as Lazarus, obeying the powerful word of the Lord, came out to meet the shocked Jews, came out alive, healthy, filled with vital juices. The loud voice of the Savior, who cried: « Lazarus, get out!» symbolized the great trumpet, which will one day usher in the general resurrection. It is also surprising how much the Bethany miracle coincides in detail with the revelation of the Apostle Paul about last day world: " I tell you a secret: we will not all die, but All let's change all of a sudden, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise incorruptible, and we will be changed"(1 Cor. 15:52).

Finally, having revealed His power over death, Christ showed that He Himself could be resurrected if He had to taste death and descend into hell. For us, the words of the Lord addressed to Martha and spoken by Him before performing the miracle are especially important: “ He who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die"(John 11: 25-26). Euthymius Zigaben, a Byzantine monk and collector of patristic interpretations of the Four Gospels, writes that “here we speak of believers in Christ who, although they die a death on earth, will live the blessed life of the next century. But those who live the life here and believers will not die the eternal death of the next century. By saying this, Jesus Christ showed that only in the next century there is true life and death, because they cannot change and replace one another, and that it is they who need to be taken care of most of all.”

What kind of life did the Jews choose?

V. The Raising of Lazarus as the Rejection of the Jews

« If I had not done things among them,
which no one else did, they would not have sin;
but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father»
(John 15:24)

Jews are the main witnesses of the miracle

The Lord, who called the Apostles to become fishers of men, set magnificent traps for the obstinate Jews, so that those who, with Talmudic stubbornness and resourcefulness, found refutations of the prophecies of Moses, Isaiah, Daniel and all the prophets in general about the One Born of the Virgin, who found flaws in His miracles, would themselves become witnesses of such a miracle that cannot be refuted, nor could it be misinterpreted.

The entire five feelings of the Jews who came to the tomb testified to the resurrection of Lazarus, as Chrysostom writes about this: “That’s why he asks: ‘ where did you put it’ (John 11:34)? - so that those who said: ‘ come and see’, and those who brought Him could not say that He raised another; so that both the voice and the hands testify: - the voice that said: - ‘ come and see’, - hands that rolled away the stone and loosened the bandages; also - sight and hearing, - hearing, because I heard a voice, - sight, because I saw the one who came out (from the tomb); as well as the sense of smell, since it felt the stench, - ‘ already stinks; for four days since he was in the tomb’» .

For this reason, Christ delayed two days, so that those who swaddled the dead man would be convinced of his death and corruption. For this reason the omniscient Lord asked, where they put it Lazarus, so that those who buried Lazarus would bring Christ to the place of burial and themselves would witness the miracle. For this reason, the almighty Christ, who promised the believers the power to move mountains (Matthew 17:20), did not want to move the grave stone so that those who moved it would feel the stench of the dead. For this purpose, Christ asked to untie the resurrected one, so that, having touched Lazarus, the Jews would be convinced that this was not a ghost and that it was the one whom they themselves swaddled.

The choice of the Jews is the choice of death

Where is the Jewish madness? where is the disbelief? how long are strangers, how long are strays, behold the departed voice emanating, and do not believe in Christ, truly you are all sons of darkness .

By raising Lazarus, Jesus unquestionably revealed Himself to be the Messiah, the Son of God and God. The Guardians of the Vineyard realized that its rightful Heir had come. And, as was predicted in the bitter parable about the evil winegrowers, they decided to kill " Guardian of Israel”(Ps. 120: 4), to commit an act as monstrous as it is insane: “Instead of being amazed and amazed, they conspire to kill Him, Him who raised the dead. What madness! They thought to put to death the One who conquered death in the bodies of others.”

The terrible verdict was preceded by slander: “ If we leave Him like this, then everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take possession of both our place and our people."(John 11:48). The Jews presented Christ as a rebel, encroaching on royal power, an impostor, who would draw the people behind Him to the punishment of the Romans. But, as Euthymius Zigaben writes, “Jesus Christ not only did not teach to rebel against the government, but on the contrary, He commanded to pay tribute to Caesar and evaded the people who wanted to make Him king; During His journey, He always observed modesty in everything and commanded everyone to spend better life, which could rather lead to the loss of all power.” And what kind of people said these words? - Those who subsequently called for the release of the rebel and murderer Barrabas, those who shouted that have no king except Caesar.

« This Man does many miracles. What should we do? "(John 11:47) - the Jews asked. The obvious answer is given by Chrysostom: “One should have believed, served and worshiped, and no longer considered Him a man.” But the Jews set to kill Jesus"(John 11:53) and thereby doomed themselves to eternal death and rejection. They themselves pronounced a sentence on themselves: “ So, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do with these vinedressers? They say to Him: He will put these evildoers to an evil death, and will give the vineyard to other vinedressers, who will give him the fruit in their time."(Matthew 21: 40-41).

In vain did the Jews memorize the words of Moses about the Prophet, Whom must be obeyed, in vain did they read about the punishments that would follow for violating this command. Ahead of them lay the destruction of the temple, the devastation of Jerusalem, the murder of more than a million fellow tribesmen, disease and terrible famine, during which mothers devoured their own children, and shameful dispersion.

It was for them that the Lord shed tears, and not for Lazarus, for, as St. Andrew writes, Christ “came to resurrect Lazarus, and therefore it would be useless to cry for the one who should be resurrected. And it was truly necessary to cry for the Jews, since He foresaw that even after the miracle had been performed, they would remain in their unbelief.”

Those who wanted to retain earthly power lost this power: “ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you! how many times have I wanted to gather your children together, as a bird gathers its chicks under its wings, and you did not want to! Behold, your house is left to you empty"(Matthew 23: 38). After the Crucifixion of the God-Man, the Vineyard passed into other hands: “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that produces the fruits thereof.”(Matt. 21:43).

What can we, the very people to whom the Kingdom of God has been transferred, glean from the holy gospel lines describing the resurrection of Lazarus?

VI. The Raising of Lazarus as an Edification to Christians

« God! the one you love is sick"(John 11:3).
Attitude to the misfortunes of the righteous

How not to waver in faith when seeing the misfortunes of the righteous? How can one not consider those who are visited by illness and sorrow to be rejected by God Himself? Similar questions have always been asked and will be asked until the end of time. You just have to accept it as a fact (including gospel history), that those who please God often suffer and do not go into more subtle considerations. Here is what St. John Chrysostom writes in connection with Lazarus’ illness: “Many are tempted when they see some people pleasing to God in some kind of disaster, when they see, for example, that they have been exposed to illness, or poverty, or something else similar; but they do not know that such suffering is characteristic of those who are especially dear to God. So Lazarus was one of the friends of Christ, but he was sick, as those who sent them said: ‘ the one you love is sick’ (John 11: 3).”

Several centuries after the fatal illness of Lazarus, I was tormented by similar questions. Reverend Anthony Great: “Lord! why some people reach old age and a state of infirmity, others die in childhood and don't live long? Why are some poor and others rich? Why do tyrants and villains prosper and abound in all earthly blessings, while the righteous are oppressed by adversity and poverty?

And he received an answer that can be addressed to all of us who have little faith and doubt God’s care for us: “Anthony! pay attention to yourself and do not subject yourself to the study of God’s destinies, because this is harmful to your soul.”

« Jesus shed tears"(John 11:35).
Measure of Christian mourning

We often see how inconsolable Christians are when they have lost someone close to them, as if they are not burying Christians, as if there is no Kingdom of Heaven and there will be no general resurrection. It happens, on the contrary, that the death of loved ones does not touch hardened human hearts.

Both behaviors are unnatural to human nature, as the God-man showed by shedding tears over his friend, “offering us images of heartfelt love.” Reverend Andrew Kritsky, the creator of the quoted canon song, reveals its meaning in “Conversation on four-day Lazarus»: «‘ Jesus shed a tear’. And thus he showed an example, an image and a measure of how we should cry for the dead. I shed tears, seeing the damage to our nature and the ugly appearance that death gives to a person.” The same is true of St. Basil the Great: Christ “enclosed the necessary passionate movements within a certain measure and limits, preventing lack of compassion, because it is bestial, and not allowing one to indulge in grief and shed many tears, because it is cowardly.”

« When I heard that [Lazarus] was sick,
then I spent two days in the place where I was"(John 11:6).
Humble behavior

The Almighty Lord postponed His coming to Bethany not only so that Lazarus would die, be buried and begin to decay, but also so that “no one would consider it indecent that He hastens to show a miracle at the first rumor.” Christ teaches us how carefully and unconceitfully we should dispose of God’s gifts: “Christ, Thy Godhead, giving Thy image to Thy disciples, Thou humbled Thyself among the people, though He hid Himself.”

How unsafe it is to be vain about the gifts of grace received from God can be seen from the story described in the “Ancient Patericon” about a monk of high life who publicly performed a certain miracle:

Abba Anthony heard about a young monk who performed such a miracle on the way: when he saw some elders who were traveling and tired on the way, he ordered wild donkeys to come up to them and carry the elders on themselves until they reached Anthony. When the elders told Abba Anthony about this, he told them: “It seems to me that this monk is a ship full of blessings, but I don’t know whether he will enter the pier.” After some time, Abba Anthony suddenly began to cry, tear out his hair and sob. The disciples asked him: “What are you crying about, Abba?” The elder answered them: “Now the great pillar of the Church has fallen!” He was talking about the young monk. “But go to him yourself,” he continued, “and see what happened!” The disciples go and find the monk sitting on the mat and mourning the sin he has committed. Seeing Anthony’s disciples, the monk tells them: “Tell the elder to beg God to give me only ten days of life, and I hope to cleanse my sin and repent.” But after five days he died.

Caiaphas, " being high priest that year,
predicted that Jesus would die for the people"(John 11:51).
Respect for the sacred order

Caiaphas, who received the position of high priest for money and condemned the Lord to death, pronounced a prophecy that signifies the very essence of the redemptive feat of Jesus Christ: “ It is better for us that one man should die for the people than that the whole nation should perish"(John 11:50). Why did the Spirit speak through the mouth of the wicked? “Because,” Chrysostom answers, “Caiaphas, despite all his crimes and evil character, was legitimate bishop: “Having been fully worthy of the bishopric, although he was unworthy, he prophesied, without himself understanding what he was saying. Grace took advantage only of his lips, but did not touch his unclean heart... However, even at this the Spirit was still inherent in them. Only when they raised their hands to Christ did He leave them and move on to the apostles.”

Likewise, a clergyman, no matter how badly he lives, is an instrument of the Spirit of God and a performer of His Sacraments until the priesthood is removed from him. That is why it is so terrible to fall into condemnation of priests, even if they lead an ungodly life, although this is often just an appearance, for, as St. Ignatius writes, “the dishonor inflicted on the servants of the altar relates to the altar, to the God present and worshiped in it.”

VII. The Raising of Lazarus as an Allegory of the Healing of the Soul

Lazarus, a four-day inhabitant of the dark land of the dead, is the image of our soul, dead in virtues and emitting the stench of sinful habits. Few of the Christians who read the holy lines about the resurrection of the four-day dead did not then sigh with the reverend hymnographer about their own resurrection and forgiveness of sins: “You raised up Lazarus with the Divine Christ with the verb: and raise me up for many sins, having died, I pray,” “You raised up the stinking Lazarus” Christ of the four days, raise me up, having died now for my sins, and laid in the ditch, and darker than the shadow of death, and as if you were gracious, deliver and save me”, “deliver me from my passions, as before the four days of Your friend Lazarus”, “A stinking dead man, bound with a hook “O Master, you raised me up, and raised me up, bound by the captivity of sins.”

St. Andrew of Crete sees in the resurrection of Lazarus the triumph of grace over the deadening letter of the Law: “ Jesus, again grieving internally, comes to the tomb. It was a cave - the dark heart of the Jews , and the stone lay on her - gross and cruel disbelief . Jesus said: Take away the stone. Heavy - disobedience - roll away the stone to bring out what is dead from the letter of Scripture. Take away the stone- unbearable by the yoke of the Law, so that they can receive the life-giving Word of grace. Take away the stone- covering and burdening the mind."

But in general the Fathers attribute the allegorical meaning of the resurrection of Lazarus to the resurrection of our inner man. The blessed one writes about this most figuratively, vividly and fully Theophylact of Bulgaria: “Our mind is a friend of Christ, but is often overcome by the weakness of human nature, falls into sin and dies a spiritual and most pitiful death, but on the part of Christ worthy of regret, for the deceased is His friend. Let the sisters and relatives of the deceased mind - flesh, like Martha (for Martha is more bodily and more substantial), and soul, like Mary (for Mary is more pious and reverent), come to Christ and fall before Him, leading with them the thoughts of confession, as those are the Jews. For Judas means confession. And the Lord, without a doubt, will appear at the grave, the blindness lying in the memory will command to be taken away, as if some stone, and will bring future blessings and torment to memory. And he will cry with the great voice of the gospel trumpet: get out of the world, do not bury yourself in worldly entertainments and passions; - just like He said to His disciples: ‘ you are not of the world’ (John 15:19), and the Apostle Paul: ‘ and we will go out to Him for mill’ (Heb. 13:13), that is, peace, - and thus will resurrect from sin the deceased, whose wounds smelled of malice. The deceased gave off a smell because he was four days old, that is, he died for the four meek and bright virtues and was idle and motionless towards them. However, although he was motionless and bound hand and foot, compressed by the bonds of his own sins and seemed completely inactive, although his face was covered with a scarf, so that when the fleshly veil was applied he could not see anything divine, in short, he was in the worst position and “by activity,” which is signified by hands and feet, and “by contemplation,” which is signified by a covered face - so, although he is in such a distressed situation, he will hear: untie him, good angels or priests serving salvation, and give him forgiveness sins, let him go and begin to do good.”

What may the merciful Lord vouchsafe us!

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Right there. Song 7.

Andrey Kritsky, Rev. Discourse on the Fourth Day of Lazarus. S. 5.

Theophylact of Bulgaria, blissful. Interpretation of the Gospel of John. T. 2. Ch. 11. P. 197.

The resurrection of Lazarus is the greatest sign, a prototype of the General Resurrection promised by the Lord. The figure of the resurrected Lazarus himself remains, as it were, in the shadow of this event, but he was one of the first Christian bishops. How did his life turn out after returning from the captivity of death? Where is his grave and are his relics preserved? Why does Christ call him a friend and how did it happen that the crowds of witnesses to the resurrection of this man not only did not believe, but denounced Christ to the Pharisees? Let's consider these and other points related to the amazing gospel miracle.
Resurrection of Lazarus. Giotto.1304-1306

Did you know that many people attended Lazarus' funeral?
Unlike the hero of the same name from the parable “About the Rich Man and Lazarus,” righteous Lazarus from Bethany was real person and besides, not the poor. Judging by the fact that he had servants, his sister anointed the Savior's feet expensive oil, after the death of Lazarus they put him in a separate tomb, and he was mourned by many Jews. Lazarus was probably a wealthy and famous person.
Due to their nobility, Lazarus’s family apparently enjoyed special love and respect among people, since many of the Jews living in Jerusalem came to the sisters who were orphaned after the death of their brother to mourn their grief. The holy city was located fifteen stages from Bethany, about three kilometers.
“The wondrous Fisher of Men chose the rebellious Jews as eyewitnesses of the miracle, and they themselves showed the coffin of the deceased, rolled away the stone from the entrance to the cave, and inhaled the stench of the decomposing body. With our own ears we heard the call to the dead man to rise, with our own eyes we saw his first steps after resurrection, with our own hands we untied the burial shrouds, making sure that this was not a ghost. So, did all the Jews believe in Christ? Not at all. But they went to the leaders, and “from that day they decided to kill Jesus.” This confirmed the correctness of the Lord, who spoke through the mouth of Abraham in the parable of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus: “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, then even if someone were raised from the dead, they will not believe.”
Saint Amphilochius of Iconium

Did you know that Lazarus became a bishop?
Exposed to mortal danger, after the murder of the holy protomartyr Stephen, Saint Lazarus was taken to the sea coast, put in a boat without oars and removed from the borders of Judea. By divine will, Lazarus, together with the Lord’s disciple Maximin and Saint Celidonius (a blind man healed by the Lord), sailed to the shores of Cyprus. Being thirty years old before his resurrection, he lived on the island for more than thirty years. Here Lazarus met the apostles Paul and Barnabas. They elevated him to the position of bishop of the city of Kitia (Kition, called Hetim by the Jews). The ruins of the ancient city of Kition were discovered during archaeological excavations and are available for inspection (from the life of Lazarus the Four-Day).
Tradition says that after the resurrection, Lazarus maintained strict abstinence, and that the Episcopal omophorion was given to him by the Most Pure Mother of God, having made it with Her own hands (Synaxarion).
“Indeed, the unbelief of the leaders of the Jews and the more influential teachers of Jerusalem, which did not yield to such a striking, obvious miracle performed in front of a whole crowd of people, is an amazing phenomenon in the history of mankind; from that time on, it ceased to be unbelief, but became a conscious resistance to obvious truth (“now you have seen and hated Me and My Father”

Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

Church of St. Lazarus in Larnaca, built on his grave. Cyprus

Did you know that the Lord Jesus Christ called Lazarus a friend?
The Gospel of John tells about this, in which our Lord Jesus Christ, wanting to go to Bethany, says to the disciples: “Lazarus, our friend, fell asleep.” In the name of the friendship of Christ and Lazarus, Mary and Martha call on the Lord to help their brother, saying: “The one you love is sick.” In the interpretation of Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, Christ deliberately places emphasis on why He wants to go to Bethany: “Since the disciples were afraid to go to Judea, He tells them: “I am not going for what I followed before, in order to expect danger from side of the Jews, but I’m going to wake up a friend.”
Relics of Saint Lazarus the Quadruple in Larnaca

Do you know where the relics of Saint Lazarus the Four-Days are located?
The holy relics of Bishop Lazarus were found in Kitia. They lay in a marble ark, on which was written: “Lazarus the Fourth Day, friend of Christ.”
The Byzantine Emperor Leo the Wise (886–911) ordered in 898 that the relics of Lazarus be transferred to Constantinople and placed in a temple in the name of the Righteous Lazarus.
Today, his relics rest on the island of Cyprus in the city of Larnaca in a temple consecrated in honor of the saint. In the underground crypt of this temple there is a tomb in which the righteous Lazarus was once buried.

Crypt of the Church of Lazarus in Larnaca. Here is an empty tomb with the signature “Friend of Christ”, in which the righteous Lazarus was buried.

Did you know that the only described case when the Lord Jesus Christ cried was associated precisely with the death of Lazarus?
“The Lord weeps because he sees man, created in His own image, undergoing corruption, in order to take away our tears, for for this he died, in order to free us from death” (St. Cyril of Jerusalem).

Did you know that the Gospel, which talks about crying Christ, contains the basic Christological dogma?
“As a man, Jesus Christ asks, and cries, and does everything else that would testify that He is a man; and as God He resurrects a four-day-old man who already smells like a dead man, and generally does what would indicate that He is God. Jesus Christ wants people to make sure that He has both natures, and therefore reveals Himself either as a man or as God” (Eufimiy Zigaben).

Do you know why the Lord calls the death of Lazarus a dream?
The Lord calls the death of Lazarus the Dormition (in the Church Slavonic text), and the resurrection that He intends to accomplish is an awakening. By this He wanted to say that death for Lazarus is a fleeting state.
Lazarus fell ill, and Christ’s disciples said to Him: “Lord! Behold, the one You love is sick.” And after this He and his disciples left for Judea. And then Lazarus dies. Already there, in Judea, Christ says to the disciples: “Lazarus, our friend, fell asleep; but I am going to wake him up." But the apostles did not understand Him and said: “If he fell asleep, he will recover,” meaning, according to the words of Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, that the coming of Christ to Lazarus is not only unnecessary, but also harmful for a friend: because “if a dream, like us I think it serves to his recovery, but if you go and wake him up, then you will hinder his recovery.” In addition, the Gospel itself explains to us why death is called a sleep: “Jesus spoke about his death, but they thought that He was talking about an ordinary sleep.” And then He directly announced that “Lazarus is dead.”
Saint Theophylact of Bulgaria speaks of three reasons why the Lord called death a sleep:
1) “out of humility, for he did not want to seem boastful, but secretly called the resurrection an awakening from sleep... For, having said that Lazarus “died,” the Lord did not add: “I will go and raise him”;
2) “to show us that all death is sleep and tranquility”;
3) “although the death of Lazarus was death for others, for Jesus Himself, since He intended to resurrect him, it was nothing more than a dream. Just as it is easy for us to wake up a sleeping person, so, and a thousand times more, it is convenient for Him to resurrect the dead,” “may the Son of God be glorified through” this miracle.

Do you know where the grave is where Lazarus came from, returned by the Lord to earthly life?


The tomb of Lazarus is located in Bethany, three kilometers from Jerusalem. Now, however, Bethany is identified with the village, in Arabic called Al-Aizariya, which grew up already in Christian times, in the 4th century, around the tomb of Lazarus himself. Ancient Bethany, where the family of righteous Lazarus lived, was located at a distance from Al-Aizariya - higher up the slope. Many events of the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ are closely connected with ancient Bethany. Every time the Lord walked with his disciples along the Jericho road to Jerusalem, their path passed through this village.

Did you know that the tomb of Lazarus is also venerated by Muslims?
Modern Bethany (Al-Aizariya or Eizariya) is the territory of the partially recognized state of Palestine, where the overwhelming majority of the population are Muslim Arabs who settled in these areas already in the 7th century. The Dominican monk Burchardt of Zion wrote about the worship of Muslims at the tomb of righteous Lazarus back in the 13th century.

Did you know that the raising of Lazarus is the key to understanding the entire fourth Gospel?
The Resurrection of Lazarus is the greatest sign that prepares the reader for the Resurrection of Christ and is a prototype of the eternal life promised to all believers: “He who believes in the Son has eternal life”; “I am the resurrection and the life; He who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.”
Sretenskaya Theological Seminary

Lazarus, in Hebrew Eliezar ( God's help) - the name of two persons mentioned in the Gospel: a) (Luke XVI, 19-31) - the name of the beggar, so called by the Lord in His highly edifying parable of the rich man and Lazarus, which depicts the afterlife fate of the righteous and sinners. In hell, being in torment (the rich man), he raised his eyes and saw Abraham in the distance, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said: child! remember that you have already received your good in your life, but Lazarus received your evil; now he is consoled here, and you suffer. The name Lazarus is still heard in the names infirmary (a hospital primarily for the poor), and in the Italian word lazzaroni, otherwise beggars; b) (John XI, 1, 2, 5, etc.) - the brother of Martha and Mary, who lived with by his sisters at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Bethany, whom the Lord raised from the dead on the fourth day after his death. This, without a doubt, was one of the greatest miracles performed by the Lord our Savior, since it confirmed His complete power and might over the grave and death, a power that a few days later was fully manifested in His own resurrection from the dead. At this wonderful and undeniable manifestation of Divine power and authority, the Jews became so enraged that they decided to kill not only Jesus, but also Lazarus, who was resurrected by Him, since as a result of this miracle many believed in the Lord. The Gospel account of this great event is deeply moving. Perhaps on no occasion were the love, goodness, greatness and omnipotence of the Lord manifested in such bright light and power in the state of His earthly humiliation, as during the miracle of the resurrection of the four-day-old Lazarus. The situation in which the said miracle took place is reproduced by the evangelist with such wonderful and majestic simplicity that it involuntarily brings into a state of deep reverence and tenderness everyone who reads this gospel narrative (see. Marfa And Maria). Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters, says the evangelist, and this gospel expression alone makes it clear that the Bethany family, as they are usually called, was worthy of the special love of the Lord, and now, as proof of His high love, the Son of God shed tears at the grave deceased, and called him back to life from the dead. Tradition says that Lazarus, after his resurrection, remained alive for another 30 years (Epiph. Haer. 66, 34) and was a bishop on Fr. Cyprus, where he died. His relics were transferred from Cyprus to Constantinople in the 9th century under Leo the Wise. The memory is celebrated by the Church on October 17.

Definitions, meanings of words in other dictionaries:

Bible Encyclopedia Brockhaus

Lazarus (Greek f-ma from Hebrew Eleazar, “God helped”): 1) the beggar from the parable told by Jesus (Luke 16:19-31) The sick man, covered with sores, lay in front of the gate of the house in which the rich man lived, and wanted only one thing - to satisfy his hunger with scraps from his table. After death, L was carried by the angels to see...

31) the name of the beggar, so called by the Lord in His highly edifying parable of the rich man and Lazarus, which depicts the afterlife fate of the righteous and sinners. " In hell, being in torment (the rich man), he raised his eyes and saw Abraham in the distance, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said: Father Abraham! have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said: child! remember that you have already received your good in your life, but Lazarus received your evil; now he is consoled here, and you suffer.". The name Lazarus can still be heard in names infirmary (a hospital primarily for the poor), and in the Italian word Lazzaroni , otherwise -.

beggars b) (John 11:1,2,5 and) brother of Martha and Mary, who lived with his sisters at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Bethany, whom the Lord raised from the dead on the fourth day after his death. This, without a doubt, was one of the greatest miracles performed by the Lord our Savior, since it confirmed His complete power and might over the grave and death, a power that a few days later was fully manifested in His own resurrection from the dead. At this wonderful and undeniable manifestation of Divine power and authority, the Jews became so enraged that they decided to kill not only Jesus, but also Lazarus, who was resurrected by Him, since as a result of this miracle many believed in the Lord. The Gospel account of this great event is deeply moving. Perhaps on no occasion were the love, goodness, greatness and omnipotence of the Lord manifested in such bright light and power in the state of His earthly humiliation, as during the miracle of the resurrection of the four-day-old Lazarus. The situation in which the said miracle took place is reproduced ev. with such wonderful and majestic simplicity that it involuntarily brings into a state of deep reverence and tenderness everyone who reads this gospel story ( cm. Martha i). Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters, says the evangelist, and this evangelical expression alone makes it clear that the Bethany family, as it is usually called, was worthy of the special love of the Lord, and now, as proof of His high love, the Son of God shed tears at the tomb of the deceased, and called him again to life from the dead. Tradition says that Lazarus, after his resurrection, remained alive for another 30 years (Epiph. Haer. 66, 34) and was a bishop on O. Cyprus, where he died. His relics were transferred from Cyprus to Constantinople in the 9th century under Leo the Wise. The memory is celebrated by the Church on October 17.

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Synonyms See what “Lazarus” is in other dictionaries:

Me, husband. Report: Lazarevich, Lazarevna; decomposition Lazarich.Derivatives: Lazarka (Lazarka); Azure; Zurya; Lazuta; Dawn.Origin: (Ancient Hebrew name 'El'azar God helped.) Name days: March 8, March 21, sixth Saturday of Lent, April 10, May 6, May 17, 28... ... Dictionary of personal names

The Gospel parable about the rich man and Lazarus served as a plot for Great Russian and Little Russian spiritual poems. In the spiritual verse, the rich man and Lazarus are brothers. In some versions, both the rich and the poor are named after Lazarus. The verse is sung mournfully... Biographical Dictionary

God helped; Lazarka, Lazurya, Zurya, Lazuta, Zarya Dictionary of Russian synonyms. Lazarus noun, number of synonyms: 3 name (1104) beggar... Synonym dictionary

- (Greek, from Hebrew el azar, “God helped”) Quadruple, a person resurrected by Jesus Christ four days after burial. According to the Gospel narrative (the story of L.’s resurrection is given only in the Gospel of John, 11), L. resident ... ... Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies

- (Lazar Hrebeljanovic) (ca. 1329 89) Serbian prince from 1371. In the end. 70s united all northern and central Serbian lands. In 1386 he was defeated Turkish troops at Pločnik's. Killed in the Battle of Kosovo Polje...

According to the Gospel of John, the brother of Martha and Mary from Bethany, one of the beloved disciples of Jesus Christ, resurrected by him four days after burial. Memory October 17... Big encyclopedic Dictionary

- (Greek fma from Hebrew Eleazar, God helped): 1) the beggar from the parable told by Jesus (Luke 16:19 31). The sick man, covered with ulcers, lay in front of the gates of the house where a rich man lived, and wanted only to satisfy his hunger with scraps from his table. After L's death... Brockhaus Biblical Encyclopedia

LAZARUS, I, male: 1) at random Lazarus (simple neod.) the same as at random. To do Lazarus at random; 2) sing Lazarus (simple neod.) cry, complain, trying to pity someone n. Stop singing Lazarus. Dictionary Ozhegova. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

LAZARUS- see Mid-season, suitable for processing into starch and chips. Plant of medium height, intermediate type, erect. Medium sized leaf, intermediate silhouette, dark green. The leaflet is medium sized, with medium width. Waviness... ... Encyclopedia of seeds. Vegetables

Books

• Lazarus, or the Journey of a Suicide Man (audiobook MP3), Andrey Dashkov. The story “Lazarus, or the Journey of a Suicide Man” is that rare case when tough and dynamic fantasy that meets all the canons of the genre rises to the level of an existential parable about...