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Luke 16:29
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.
Verse Luke 16:29. _THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS_] This plainly supposes they were all Jewish believers: they had these writings in their hands, but they did not permit them to influence their live...
THEY HAVE MOSES - The writings of Moses. The first five books of the Bible. THE PROPHETS - The remainder of the Old Testament. What the prophets had written. HEAR THEM - Hear them speak in the Scrip...
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)...
MOSES AND THE PROPHETS. The latter including the historical books. See App-1. Referring to Luke 16:16. Compare John 1:45; John 5:39; John 5:46. MOSES. See not
_They have Moses and the prophets_ See John 1:45; John 5:39; John 5:46. __...
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...
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
ΜΩΫΣΈΑ ΚΑῚ ΤΟῪΣ ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΣ. See John 1:45; John 5:39; John 5:46....
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...
ΆΚΟΥΣΆΤΩΣΑΝ _aor. imper. act. 3 pers. pl. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, слышать и повиноваться, с _obj._ в _gen._...
DISCOURSE: 1550 THE HOPELESS STATE OF THOSE WHO DISREGARD THE SCRIPTURES Luke 16:29. _Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: b...
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...
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. ABRAHAM SAITH UNTO HIM, THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; LET THEM HEAR THEM. Still this does not satisfy....
MOSES AND THE PROPHETS] These would give them sufficient light and guidance. 30, 31. Our Lord disbelieved the power of signs and wonders to produce repentance, and here declares that even the sign of...
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...
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...
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...
THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS. — The words are in entire harmony with all the teaching of our Lord. The right use of lower knowledge is the condition of attaining to the higher, and without it sign...
_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...
_Dives intercedes for his brethren_....
Μωσέα, etc.: _cf._ Luke 18:20, where Jesus refers the ruler to the commandments. Moses, or the law, and the prophets = the O.T., the appointed, regular means of grace....
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 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...
_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...
(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...
29._They have Moses and the prophets. _In the persons of _the rich man _and _Abraham _Christ reminds us, that we have received an undoubted rule of life, and that therefore we have no right to expect...
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...
ABRAHAM SAID UNTO HIM..... In reply to this his request: THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; that is, their writings; which shows this man, and his five brethren, to be Jews; for to them were the oracl...
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. Ver. 29. _Let them hear them_] Hell is to be escaped by hearing the word read and preached, John 5:25; Isaiah 55:3 ....
_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....
THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; the Old Testament scriptures. Great and momentous truths are revealed by God in the Bible. If men who have the Bible and the preaching of the gospel are not led, unde...
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...
Christ here represents to us the genius of wicked and carnal men, that would be converted by revelations and some extraordinary signs; if they could see one risen from the dead, then they would believ...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV the end of both of them, the "torments" of Herod and the "comfort" of John, that even now Herod might hear that warning: "They have there Moses and the prophets, le...
‘But Abraham says, “They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.” ' Abraham points him, and all who hear, to Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. They are the means by which God speaks...
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 16:29. THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, _i.e.,_ the Old Testament. LET THEM HEAR THEM. This implies that these men, though children of Abraham and possessors of the Old Testament, had never ri...
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...
LET THEM HEAR THEM (ακουσατωσαν αυτων). Even the heathen have the evidence of nature to show the existence of God as Paul argues in Romans so that they are without excuse (Romans 1:20)....
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)....
_Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the Prophets, i.e._ the writings of Moses and the Prophets, which the Scribes and Pharisees read and expound in their synagogues....
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...
2 Peter 1:19; 2 Timothy 3:15; Acts 15:21; Acts 17:11; Acts 17:12;...
That is, they have the inspired writings of Moses and the prophets, which sufficiently declare the mind and will of God to mankind, and therefore it is unreasonable to expect any farther revelation....