Can't use Carbon Laravel method in my laravel .blade view

In my Controller I get the current date an another date, I send this params to my view.blade:

$current_date = Carbon::now('Europe/Madrid');
$second_date  = Carbon::create(2016, 6, 3, 00, 00, 00, 'Europe/Madrid');

In my Controller this function works fine:

$current_date->lt($second_date) # true

But in my blade.php Laravel report this error: FatalErrorException in efcb37f79f0e8cb86e0f747997c402d6f7026ada.php line 112: Call to a member function lt() on string

I debug my laravel view and the lt() method receives a correct Carbon object

Carbon {#361 ▼
  +"date": "2016-06-03 00:00:00.000000"
  +"timezone_type": 3
  +"timezone": "Europe/Madrid"
}

what is happening here?

My view code:

@foreach ($articles_rows as $articles_row)
            @if($current_date->lt($articles_row['expiration_date']))
                <div class="row">
                ...show articles here
                </div>
            @endif
@endforeach

My controller code:

$articles_rows = array (

            array(
                'img_src'         => FuImg::asset('img/regalos-para-profesores.jpg'),
                'img_alt'         => 'Regalos para profesores',
                'expiration_date' => Carbon::create(2016, 6, 3, 00, 00, 00, 'Europe/Madrid'),
                'class'           => 'teacher-gifts',
                'articles'        => 
                    # Articulos
                    FotiArticle::getList(array(
                        'fields'     => 'article_id,name,group_id,group,price_pvp_currency,quantity,prices,stock_available',
                        'expand'     => 'group,prices',
                        'article_id' => '2829,186,2875,1728',
                        'order'      => 'PRICE',
                    )),

            ),

            array(
                'img_src'     => FuImg::asset('img/regalos-ocasiones-especiales.jpg'),
                'img_alt'     => 'Ocasiones especiales',
                'expiration_date' => Carbon::create(2016, 6, 2, 00, 00, 00, 'Europe/Madrid'),
                'class'       => 'wedding',

                'articles'    => FotiArticle::getList(array(
                        'fields'     => 'article_id,name,group,price_pvp_currency,quantity,prices,stock_available',
                        'expand'     => 'prices',
                        'article_id' => '1611,4481,50,5345',
                        'order'      => 'PRICE',
                )),
            ),

        );

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