Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Luke 16:27
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;
FIVE BRETHREN - The number “five” is mentioned merely to preserve the appearance of verisimilitude in the story. It is not to be spiritualized, nor are we to suppose that it has any hidden or inscruta...
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...
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...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
I PRAY. I entreat. Greek. _erotao._ App-134. TO. unto. Greek. _eis._ App-104....
_that thou wouldest send him to my father_" _s house_ It is difficult not to see in this request the dawn of a less selfish spirit in the rich man's heart....
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...
ΕἸΣ ΤῸΝ ΟἾΚΟΝ ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΑΤΡΌΣ ΜΟΥ. It is difficult not to see in this request the dawn of a less selfish spirit in the rich man’s heart....
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 27. Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house: 28. For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torm...
_THE RICH MAN'S CONCERN -- LUKE 16:27-31:_ The rich man begged God to send Lazarus to his father's house to warn his brothers. "Then he said, I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my...
_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...
ΈΡΩΤΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΩΤΆΩ (G2065) спрашивать, ΠΈΜΨΗΣ _aor. conj. act., см._ Luke 16:24. Богатый человек проявил любовь к своим братьям, но не любовь к Лазарю (LNT, 90). _Conj._ в _obj. прид....
AND BESIDES ALL THIS, &C.— "Ah poor creature! the time of mercy and hope is now over: God has fixed such a vast and unpassable distance between the happy and the miserable by an irreversible decree an...
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...
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: THEN HE SAID - now abandoning all hope, not only of release but relief for himself, and directing his...
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...
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...
I PRAY THEE THEREFORE, FATHER. — The re iterated appeal to Abraham as “father” is suggestive in many ways: (1) as speaking out that in which too many of the rich man’s class put an undue trust, restin...
_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...
οὖν = if no hope for _me_, there may be for those still dear to me. Possibility of transit from Paradise to _earth_ is assumed. That this is desired reveals humane feeling. No attempt to show that Div...
_Dives intercedes for his brethren_....
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...
(7) Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: (7) Seeing that we have a most sure rule to live by, laid forth for us in the word of God, men seek...
In this parable we are taught an important truth, viz. that we must not expect to learn our duty from the dead returning to life, nor by any other extraordinary or miraculous means, but from the revel...
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 second Conversation._ The rich man acquiesces so far as his own person is concerned. But he intercedes for his brethren still in life. And again it is Lazarus who must busy himself on their beha...
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 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...
The scene from beyond the tomb, Luke 16:23-31, offers a contrast exactly corresponding to the terrestrial scene. We do not attempt to distinguish in the representation what should be taken in a figura...
(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...
27._I beseech thee, father. _To bring the narrative into more full accordance with our modes of thinking, he describes _the rich man _as wishing that his brothers, who were still alive, should be warn...
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...
THEN HE SAID, I PRAY THEE THEREFORE FATHER,.... The Cambridge, copy of Beza's, and the Ethiopic version read, "father Abraham"; finding he could have no redress of his misery, nor any relief for himse...
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: Ver. 27. _I pray thee therefore_] Are not the Popish doctors hard driven, when they allege this text to...
_Besides all this_ As to the favour thou desirest from the hand of Lazarus, it is a thing impossible to be granted; for _between us and you there is a great gulf fixed_ Χασμα μεγα εστηρικται, _a great...
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....
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...
Ver. 27,28. Him that the rich man would not hear, when he lay at his gate full of sores, exhorting him to do good and to distribute, to give alms of all that he had, and to make himself friends of the...
Luke 16:27 Then G1161 said G2036 (G5627) beg G2065 (G5719) you G4571 therefore G3767 father G3962 that...
‘And he said, “I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.” ' Aga...
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 16:27-28. I PRAY THEE THEREFORE, etc. His brethren were living as he had done. ‘This is the _believing and trembling_ of James 2:9. His eyes are now opened to the truth ; and no wonder that his n...
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...
THAT YOU SEND HIM (ινα πεμψηις αυτον). As if he had not had a fair warning and opportunity. The Roman Catholics probably justify prayer to saints from this petition from the Rich Man to Abraham, bu...
Luke 16:27 I. The Scriptures distinctly reveal future punishment. II. In a future state punishment will completely arouse memory. "Son, remember." III. The punishment of hell will be regulated by th...
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....
SEND LAZARUS TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE. He first thought of himself. Now he wants to warn his family. This is brought up to emphasize what follows. YOUR BROTHERS HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS TO WARN THEM. T...
_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 16:27 Luke will later point out that MOSES AND THE PROPHETS all testify to Jesus as the true Messiah (Luke 24:27)....
_Then he said, I pray thee, therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him_, &c. Probably these words are spoken as the former ones, after the manner of a parable (see verse 24). For it is a very comm...
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...
_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...
Send him to my father's house. Compare Dante, where Ciacco, the glutton, says to Dante : "But when thou art again in the sweet world, I pray thee to the mind of others bring me." Inferno, 6, 88....
Here the rich man is represented as retaining even in hell some tenderness for his relations on earth; yet others think, that the kindness intended, was rather to himself than to his relations; fearin...