SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #271
And all wept and mourned for her. But he said: "Weep not. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth." And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
But he taking her by the hand, cried out, saying: "Maid, arise." And her spirit returned: and she arose immediately. (Luke 8:52-55)
DEATH IS A SLEEP: 1. because the dead "rest from their labors" (Apoc. 14:13);
2. because they can work no longer;
3. because the bodies of the dead shall one day wake up again to life. The church-yard is "God's acre," where the bodies of the dead are sown like seeds of corn, ready to spring up at the Last Day (I Cor. 15:42-43).
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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