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Joh 11:1. Λάζαρος, Lazarus) It may be inferred from many circumstances that Lazarus was the younger, and his sisters the older by birth. It is from these latter that the village is designated; Joh 11:1, “The town of Mary and her sister Martha:” and Lazarus is put third in the order of names, Joh 11:5. Ecclesiastical history hands down the tradition, that Lazarus lived after the ascension of the Lord as many years as had been his age at that time, namely, thirty.-ἀπὸ-ἐκ) Not unfrequently a preposition is repeated in apposition, either the preposition itself, or else a synonym: 2Co 1:19 [διʼ ἡμῶν-διʼ ἐμοῦ].-Μαρίας) Mary was the better known of the two among the disciples, owing to those acts of hers which are mentioned in Joh 11:2 [the anointing of Jesus]: she is accordingly placed before Martha; though Martha was the elder-born, Joh 11:5; Joh 11:19 [where Martha is named the first].