Footnotes:
[[611]] Gen. xix. 2.
[[612]] Luke xxiv. 16.
[[613]] 2 Kings iii. 23.
[[614]] 2 Kings iv. 19, 20.
CHAPTER LIII.
INSTANCES OF PERSONS RESUSCITATED, WHO RELATE WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN IN THE OTHER WORLD.
We have just seen that the vampires never speak of the other world, nor ask for either masses or prayers, nor give any warning to the living to lead them to correct their morals, or bring them to a better life. It is surely very prejudicial to the reality of their return from the other world; but their silence on that head may favor the opinion which supposes that they are not really dead.
It is true that we do not read either that Lazarus, resuscitated by Jesus Christ,[[615]] nor the son of the widow of Nain,[[616]] nor that of the woman of Shunam, brought to life by Elisha,[[617]] nor that Israelite who came to life by simply touching the body of the same prophet Elisha,[[618]] after their resurrection revealed anything to mankind of the state of souls in the other world.