Matthew Poole and continuators on John 11:16

16 Then saith Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him .

Thomas and Didymus were names of the same signification, onely Thomas was the Hebrew, and Didymus the Greek name. This is that Thomas, who to the last, shewed a greater difficulty in believing, than many others of the Disciples did, Chap. 20.25. His words here signified great ra[illegible: 1 letter]hness and unbelief: Let us go and die with him, with Christ (say some). Seeing that our Lord will not be perswaded from going into Iudea, where his Life will be in apparent danger, for they will put him to death; let us also go and die with him. But it is more probable, that Thomas meant with Lazarus, who as our Saviour told them but now was dead; and in that sense, it was not onely an expression of great passion, but great unbelief also. We ought not to be so affected with the death of our Friends, as to wish, or desire our selves out of the World, where God hath set us in stations, which we ought to keep, until God be pleased to remove us. Besides, Thomas ought so have believed our Saviour, who had told them, that tho Lazarus slept the sleep of Death, yet he went to awake him; which could have no other sense, than to raise him out of that sleep of Death, of which he had spoken. Ah! To what Errors do our Passions betray us?