Just as he arrived at the gate of the town. Most towns in the Middle East had walls and a gate. He met the funeral procession coming out. The dead were always carried out of a Jewish town to be buried outside. The dead man. He was being carried in an open coffin, covered with a cloth. [SOROS = coffin; bier; urn; a stand on which a corpse is carried.] The only son. A bitter loss. Compare Jeremiah 6:26; Amos 8:10.

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Old Testament