For, it is added, from the very day on which he is expelled from his home, he is to be regarded as dead (tanquam mortuus habetur).
And St. Augustine on this verse says beautifully: "Quis ita dormit quando voluerit, sicut Jesus mortuus est quando voluit?
Then therefore Jesus said manifeste: Lazarus mortuus to them plainly: Lazarus is est: dead; 11-14.
Art thou greater than our nostro Abraham, qui mortuus father Abraham, who is dead?
In a distich accompanying an Agnus Dei in the church of St. Pudentiana at Rome, both characters are ascribed to Our Lord: Hic agnus mundum restaurat sanguine lapsum, Mortuus et vivus idem sum, pastor et agnus.
When you come back to us, so far as I can conjecture, you will find me there, "mortuus mundo.
Jam pridem mortuus est means, he died long ago, as an aorist; jam diu mortuus est, he has already long been in his grave as a perfect.
Ergo dum resurrectio et vita: qui credit in me, etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet: et omnis qui vivet et credit in me, non morietur in aeternum.
THE HOLY SOULS Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel Ego Sum Vatican Antiphonale Antiphon Second Mode Ergo dum resurrectio et vita: qui credit in me, etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet: et omnis qui vivet et credit in me, non morietur in aeternum.
I believe the original intention of the clause was no more than 'vere mortuus est'--in contradiction to the hypothesis of a trance or state of suspended animation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortuus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
