7.Q. What may we learn from Christ’s going to Judea again?
A. That though we have met with persecution in a place, yet when God calls us thither again, we must answer, “Lo, we come;” for the way of duty is the way of safety.
8.Q. Did not this argue a fear in the Disciples?
A. Yes; and from hence we may learn that we ought to beware of our carnal relations, who will dissuade us from doing our duty, if difficulties attend it, as these Disciples did Christ.
9, 10.Q. What is the meaning of these verses?
A. The meaning of them seems to be this: There is a certain time appointed by my Father for me to do my work in, and in that time I shall be as safe from danger, as a man that walketh by day is from falling; but when that time is over, I shall be taken by them, as a man falls when he walks in the dark.
11.Q. Was not Lazarus actually dead? why then does Christ say, “he sleepeth?”
A. Because death is but as a sleep to a good man; for, as sleep frees us from the labour of the day, so does death free good men from the troubles of life.
Q. What learn you from Christ’s calling Lazarus his friend?
A. That he loves us as dear as himself; for a friend is said to be as dear to a man as his own soul: “And thy friend which is as thy own soul.”