By St. Theophan the Recluse
To
whomever has work-loving Martha, who symbolizes
comprehensive good works, and who has Mary sitting at
Jesus’ feet, symbolizing an attentive and warm
appeal to the Lord with all the heart, the Lord Himself
will come and will resurrect Lazarus, who symbolizes his
spirit, and will release him from all his emotional and
fleshly bonds. Then a truly new life will begin in him,
bodiless in the body and unearthly on the earth. It will
be a true resurrection in the spirit before the future
resurrection, which will be together with the body!