On the raising of LAZARUS.

 Hades, personified, is represented as addressing God, to this effect: "If I permit LAZARUS to escape, You lose all whom I have been keeping."Christ answers: "I, O Father, will pay ADAM'S debt, in order that those who, through ADAM, are perishing in Hades, may. through Me, live to You." On this the whole Trinity consent. And LAZARUS is ordered to leave the tomb. and "hell (Tartarus) was ordered to obey, and give up to Christ all the dead." - Ser. lxv.