Commentating on John 11:11 -14,
>he said to them: "Lazarus our friend sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep." His disciples therefore said: "Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well." But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought that he spoke of the repose of sleep. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
St. Augustine wrote (quoted in St. Thomas Aquinas's *Catena Aurea* on John 11 ):
>It was really true that He was sleeping. To our Lord, he was sleeping; to men who could not raise him again, he was dead. Our Lord awoke him with as much ease from his grave, as you awake a sleeper from his bed.
So, which is it? Was Lazarus's soul united to his body (and in a coma) or not (thus truly dead)?
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