For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Ver. 28. Lest they also come into this place] This he wisheth, not for their good, but for his own. For he knew that if they were damned, he should be double damned, because they were brought thither partly by his lewd and loose example.
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)...
TESTIFY. earnestly testify. LEST THEY ALSO. that they also may not (Greek. _me._ App-105)....
_I have five brethren_ If there be any special meaning in this detail, the clue to it is now lost. Some have seen in it a reference to the five sons of the High Priest Annas, all of whom succeeded to...
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...
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...
ΠΈΝΤΕ�. If there be any special meaning in this detail, the clue to it is now lost. Some have seen in it a reference to the five sons of the High Priest Annas, all of whom succeeded to the Priesthood,...
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
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...
ΔΙΑΜΑΡΤΎΡΗΤΑΙ _praes. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΑΜΑΡΤΎΡΟΜΑΙ (G1263) свидетельствовать, предупреждать. Предложное сочетание может означать: "успешно свидетельствовать" или "свидетельствовать вдумчиво и о...
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...
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. FOR I HAVE FIVE BRETHREN; THAT HE MAY TESTIFY UNTO THEM, LEST THEY ALSO COME INTO THIS PLAC...
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...
FOR I HAVE FIVE BRETHREN. — Here again we are left to choose between opposite views of the motive which prompted the request. Was it simply a selfish fear of reproaches that might aggravate his suffer...
ἀδελφούς, brothers, in the literal sense. Why force on it an allegorical sense by finding in it a reference to the Pharisees or to the Jewish people, brethren in the sense of fellow-countrymen? _Five_...
_Dives intercedes for his brethren_....
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
FOR I HAVE FIVE BRETHREN,.... Meaning his brethren and countrymen, according to the flesh; who when he was alive, stood in such a relation to him; said to be "five", in allusion it may be to the child...
_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....
Hearing Moses and the Prophets:...
FOR I HAVE FIVE BRETHREN; THAT HE MAY TESTIFY UNTO THEM, LEST THEY ALSO COME INTO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT....
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...
SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 16:27...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II The rich man in hell[192] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection For the rich man says: "I have five brethren;... lest they also come into this place of...
Luke 16:28 for G1063 have G2192 (G5719) five G4002 brothers G80 that G3704 testify G1263 (G5741) them...
‘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 HE MAY TESTIFY (οπως διαμαρτυρητα). An old verb for solemn and thorough (δια-) witness. The Rich Man labours under the delusion that his five brothers will believe the testimony of Lazarus as...
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)....
_That he may testify unto them_ how grievously I am tormented for my sinful indulgence, and exhort them to repentance and amendment, _lest they also come into this place of torment. _ You will say th...
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...
Psalms 49:12; Psalms 49:13...
Lest they also come into this place — He might justly fear lest their reproaches should add to his own torment....