²⁴就说 ：退去罢 ！这闺女 不是 死了 ，是睡着了 。他们就嗤笑 他 。

²⁴He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

²⁴ Verse 24. The maid is not dead, but sleepeth] That is, she is

not dead so as to continue under the power of death; but shall be

raised from it as a, person is from natural sleep.



They laughed him to scorn.] κατεγελωναυτον, they ridiculed

him; from κατα, intensive, and γελαω, I laugh:-they

grinned a ghastly smile, expressive of the contempt they felt for

his person and knowledge. People of the world generally ridicule

those truths which they neither comprehend nor love, and deride

those who publish them; but a faithful minister of God, (copying

the example of Christ,) keeps on his way, and does the work of his

Lord and Master.