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Luke 16:20
and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores,
and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores,
Verse Luke 16:20. _THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS_] His name is mentioned, because his character was _good_, and his end _glorious_; and because it is the purpose of God that the righteous...
BEGGAR - Poor man. The original word does not mean “beggar,” but simply that he was “poor.” It should have been so translated to keep up the contrast with the “rich man.” NAMED LAZARUS - The word Laz...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The Unjust Steward. (Luke 16:1)_ 2. The Impossible Service. (Luke 16:13) 3. The Deriding Pharisees Answered. (Luke 16:14) 4. Concerning Divorce. ...
PARABLE OF DIVES AND LAZARUS (Lk. only). The story may have originally ended at Luke 16:23 or at Luke 16:25, and been intended simply to illustrate the contrasted lot of poor and rich in this world an...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
There was a rich man who dressed habitually in purple and fine linen, and who feasted in luxury every day. A poor man, called Lazarus, was laid at his gate. He was full of ulcerated sores, and he desi...
BEGGAR. poor man. App-127. LAZARUS.. common Talmudic contraction of the Hebrew Eleazar; but introduced by the Lord to point to His own closing comment in Luke 16:31. LAID. cast down. AT. Greek. _pr...
_named Lazarus_ Lazarus is not from _lo ezer_, -no help," i.e. -forsaken," but from _Eli ezer,_-helped of God," _Gotthilf._It is contracted from the commoner Eleazar. This is the only parable in which...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
ΛΆΖΑΡΟΣ. Lazarus is not from _lo ezer_, ‘no help,’ i.e. ‘forsaken,’ but from _Elî ezer_, ‘helped of God,’ _Gotthilf_. It is contracted from the commoner Eleazar. This is the only parable in which a pr...
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
VER 19. THERE WAS A CERTAIN RICH MAN, WHICH WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN, AND FARED SUMPTUOUSLY EVERY DAY: 20. AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS, WHICH WAS LAID AT HIS GATE, FULL OF...
_THE RICH MAN'S CONDITION -- LUKE 16:19-27:_ The Bible account of the rich man and Lazarus is both serious and sobering. In thirteen brief verses Luke shows God's "wrath to come" against those who kno...
ΠΤΩΧΌΣ (G4434) бедный, нищий (TDNT; MNW; EDNT). ΈΒΈΒΛΗΤΟ _plperf. ind. pass. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать, помещать. Он был помещен туда и по-прежнему там находился, ΠΥΛΏΝ (G4440) _gen. pl._ ворота. Име...
A CERTAIN BEGGAR, NAMED LAZARUS,— An exceedingly emphatic name; for it seems to be derived from עזר לא _Laozer,_ which signifies _a helpless person._ Some have imagined, from the name of Lazarus and t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Be Sharing (Luke 16:19-31) 19 There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20And at his gate lay a poor man named...
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS - equivalent to the Old Testament Eleazer. The naming of this...
THE UNJUST STEWARD. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to illust...
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS: peculiar to Lk, and full of that sympathy with the poor which characterises his Gospel. It does not, however, as Strauss maintains, assert that the mere possession of wealth...
LAZARUS] = _Eleazar_, i.e. 'He who has God for his help.' His name expresses his character. Prom Lazarus is derived _lazar_ = leper. DESIRING] but not obtaining his desire....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *PARABLE OF THE UNJUST MANAGER 16:1-8 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘A rich man had a servant who managed his property. The rich man heard...
AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS. — The word for “beggar,” it may be noted, is the same as the “poor” of Luke 6:20. The occurrence in this one solitary instance of a personal name in our L...
Λάζαρος gives the impression of a story from real life, but the name for the poor man is introduced for convenience in telling the tale. He has to be referred to in the sequel (Luke 16:24). No symboli...
_Parable of the rich man and Lazarus_. This story is hardly a parable in the sense of illustrating by an incident from natural life a truth in the spiritual sphere. Both story and moral belong to the...
A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE Luke 16:14-31 Here was a flagrant case of heartless indifference, amid luxuries of every kind, to the daily spectacle of abject need. Most of us have at least one Lazarus at t...
The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whic...
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS Luke 16:19-31. _“And there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day.”_ A. This was a rich Jew, living like a king at...
_The Parable of the Wicked Rich Man._ It is composed of two principal scenes, which correspond so exactly with one another, that in their correspondence we must seek the very idea of the parable; the...
This piece contains: 1 _st._ The parable of the unjust steward, with accompanying reflections (Luke 16:1-13); 2 _d._ Reflections forming an introduction to the parable of the wicked rich man, and the...
2 _d. Luke 16:14-31_. _The Wicked Rich Man._ The introduction (Luke 16:14-18) is composed of a series of sayings which at first sight appear to have no connection with one another. Holtzmann thinks th...
The terrestrial scene, Luke 16:19-22. It embraces four portraitures which, taken two and two, form counterparts of one another: the life of the rich man, Luke 16:19, and that of the poor man, Luke 16:...
(19) There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: (20) And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of s...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_LIVING AND DYING_ ‘There was a certain rich man.… And there was a certain beggar.’ Luke 16:19 This is a solemn parable. It gives us a peep into the unseen world. It tells of a poor man who went to...
In chapter 16, the effect of grace on conduct is presented, and the contrast that exists (the dispensation being changed) between the conduct that Christianity requires with regard to the things of th...
AND THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS,.... By whom is designed, not any particular beggar in the times of Christ, that went by this name; though there were such persons in Israel, and in the ti...
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, Ver. 20. _A certain beggar named Lazarus_] Or Eleazar (as Tertullian and Prudentius call him), who having been...
_And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus_ According to the Greek pronunciation; or _Eliazar_, according to the Hebrew; a name very proper for a person in such a condition, signifying, _the help o...
To illustrate the folly, guilt, and ruin of being dishonest towards God and employing what he gives only in self-indulgence, our Saviour gave this account of the rich man and Lazarus....
BEGGER; literally, a poor man. LAID AT HIS GATE; there was then no public provision for the poor, and when disabled, they were often laid at the gates of the rich, that they might receive aid....
A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner, yet...
19-31 Here the spiritual things are represented, in a description of the different state of good and bad, in this world and in the other. We are not told that the rich man got his estate by fraud, or...
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Luke 16:20 But G1161 was G2258 (G5713) certain G5100 beggar G4434 named G3686 Lazarus G2976 sores G1669 ...
‘And a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.' Ther...
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS (16:19-31). This story deals with two aspects of what has gone before, the danger of possessing riches and not using them rightly, and the danger of ignoring God's true Instru...
Luke 16:20. A CERTAIN BEGGAR. Introduced in contrast with the rich man, who is the principal figure. NAMED LAZARUS. The significant name is mentioned in this case. It means ‘God a help,' not, as some...
Luke 16:19-31. THE PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS. After rebuking the Pharisees, our Lord enforces the teaching which they derided by means of this parable. The two characters simply represent th...
The response of the Pharisees (Luke 16:14) called forth another parable, in which another phase, of the same great truth is brought out, namely, that _neglect_ of the proper application of wealth beco...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
BEGGAR (πτωχος). Original meaning of this old word. See on Matthew 5:3. The name Lazarus is from Ελεαζαρος, "God a help," and was a common one. _Lazar_ in English means one afflicted with a pestile...
Luke 16:19 I. It is very important to observe that, in this parable, we have not before us the entire character either of the rich man or Lazarus. The luxurious self-indulgent habit of living is the a...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust steward. Jesus answers Pharisees. Rich man and Lazarus in the spirit world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, John the Baptist, rich man, Lazarus, Abraham, five broth...
Luke 16:1. _A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods._ After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's property....
THERE WAS ALSO A POOR MAN. In the last stages of his life, this poor man has nothing to keep him alive, but the charity he receives. NAMED LAZARUS. This is the only time Jesus mentions a name in a par...
_There was a certain rich man_ DIVES AND LAZARUS I. THE ALLOTMENTS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE ON EARTH ARE NOT ALWAYS EVENLY BASED UPON A REGISTER OF HUMAN DESERT. 1. The rich man is not offered as a lum...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 16:19 CLOTHED IN PURPLE. Dressed in luxurious clothes. ⇐ ⇔
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods._ Having rebuked in three par...
_And there was a certain beggar_, a poor man, according to the Arabic. A beggar, poor in earthly possessions, but rich in virtues and in patience; named Lazarus. "The mention of the name," says S. Amb...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 16:14. In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addressed to...
EXPOSITION LUKE 16:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, and Dives and...
Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all. Now Jesus is at a...
1 Samuel 2:8; Acts 3:2; Isaiah 1:6; James 1:9; James 2:5;...
Beggar. See on poor, Matthew 5:3. Lazarus. Abbreviated from 'Eleazarov, Eleazar, and meaning God a help. "It is a striking evidence of the deep impression which this parable has made on the mind of C...
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, (according to the Greek pronunciation) or Eleazer. By his name it may be conjectured, he was of no mean family, though it was thus reduced. There was no r...