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Luk 7:11. Ἐν τῷ ἑξῆς) So ἐν τῷ καθεξῆς, ch. Luk 8:1. Ancient translators generally understand this expression of a day following, I know not whether precisely, the next day. The Vulgate has deinceps; but the genuine text of the Vulg. has, according to Mill, alia die. Mill cites no authority: and yet it is not of much consequence; for the sense even thus may be indefinite. Altera die [the second or next day], sequenti die,[70] which the Vulgate elsewhere is wont to use, would be different.[71] The series of events in this place requires a less definite time; for the raising of the young man of Nain is connected more closely with the subsequent message [deputation] sent by John, than with the preceding healing of the centurion’s servant, as we have shown in the Harmony of the Gospels, § 62. [The daughter of Jairus was first raised to life before the young man of Nain: and on that account the faith of Jairus is the more praiseworthy, because it had no precedent to look to of a dead man raised to life by Jesus. The Lord secretly raised the daughter of Jairus, and ordered that act of raising the dead to be even kept secret; but then next He raised up both the young man of Nain and Lazarus publicly. Nain was one of those cities of which mention is made in Mat 11:1, nay, indeed previously in Mat 9:35. For since the disciples went to the city of Nain in a body [whereas when sent forth they went “by two and two,” Mar 6:7], there is hardly reason to doubt that the raising up of the young man took place before the sending forth of the Twelve Apostles, who were confirmed in the faith by this very miracle.-Harm., p. 296.]-Ναῒν, Nain) The specification of the name of the town, as also the double multitude [the “much people” following the Lord, and also the “much people” following the funeral of the young man, Luk 7:11-12] of spectators, confirms the certainty of the miracle.
[70] Not die sequenti: the latter may be a day following: the former is necessarily the following day.-ED. and TRANSL.
[71] ab and the oldest MSS. of Vulg. have deinceps. c has sequenti die.-ED. and TRANSL.