Word: lazarus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesus takes Mary the sister of Lazarus as his Queen at the ancient rite during which his cultist followers lame him and anoint him King; but to everyone's dismay he announces his New Law of chastity...
...Because my name is Lazarus and I live...
...using parables, Jesus was "a great artist, a superb storyteller, a born dramatist. . . ." In performing miracles He revealed "a God of love." But the author, who shies away from the supernatural, does not believe that Lazarus was raised from the dead. Lazarus' relatives and friends and the Gospel chronicler may have believed it, but "there is nothing [in the Biblical account] that compels us to believe that Lazarus was literally dead." Lazarus may have been brought "back to health" by Jesus' "power of mind and will" and by "the therapy of his own abundant vitality...
...right there with the body and would have continued there had the man been dead for a month. It is both unscientific and unscriptural to say the soul leaves the body at any time. Two scriptural examples: Lazarus had been dead four days. Decomposition had set in. When Jesus raised him He said, "Lazarus come forth," and Lazarus came forth with no account of anything unusual having occurred. . . . How about his soul? Lazarus was the soul himself. When Lazarus was dead his soul was also dead ("asleep" the Bible calls it). Also the young man whose funeral Jesus broke...
...Federated's $100,000-a-year bigwigs had all the incentive they need. The plan, he wrote, is actually a device to give executives a salary increase "not subject to ordinary income taxes" but only to capital-gains taxes (25%). For example, said angry Mr. Bloomingdale, if Fred Lazarus should make $50,000 by a rise in the price of any stock purchased, "he would retain $37,500 after payment of federal capital-gains tax. For Mr. Lazarus to be able to retain $37,500 a year out of any additional salary . . . subject to ordinary income taxes, his present...