Luke 7:14

“And he came and touched the bier, etc.] Or “bed”, as the Syriac version renders it; and such was hjm, “the bier”, or bed, on which one of three years old, and upward, was carried as above mentioned: so that on which Herod was carried to his grave is called klinh “a bed”, by Josephus f287 . As for the bed, or bier, of what sort it was that they carried out their dead upon, take the following account: f288 “formerly the rich carried out (their dead) upon a bed called Dargash, (which is said f289 to be a bed that was not platted with ropes, and is called a bed of fortune f290,) and the poor carried out (their dead) upon one that was called Celicah, (or Celibah, as sometimes read; and this was…”

“What mingled majesty and grace shines in this scene! The Resurrection and the Life in human flesh, with a word of command, bringing back life to the dead body; Incarnate Compassion summoning its absolute power to dry a widow's tears!”

“bier: or, coffin Young: Luk 8:54, Luk 8:55; Kg1 17:21; Job 14:12, Job 14:14; Psa 33:9; Isa 26:19; Eze 37:3-10; Joh 5:21, Joh 5:25, Joh 5:28, Joh 5:29, Joh 11:25, Joh 11:43, Joh 11:44; Act 9:40, Act 9:41; Rom 4:17; Eph 5:12 Luke 7:15”