Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 16:26
Beside this there is a great gulf fixed — Reader, to which side of it wilt thou go?
Beside this there is a great gulf fixed — Reader, to which side of it wilt thou go?
A GREAT GULF - The word translated “gulf” means chasm, or the broad, yawning space between two elevated objects. In this place it means that there is no way of passing from one to the other. FIXED -...
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...
BESIDE. Greek. _epi._ App-104. IS. has been. GULF. chasm.. transliteration of the Greek _chasma,_ from _chasko,_ to gape.. medical word for an open wound. FIXED. set fast, established. Compare Luke...
_there is a great gulf fixed Change of place_is not a possible way of producing _change of soul._Dives while he still had the heart of Dives would have been in agony even in Abraham's bosom. But 1 Pet...
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...
ΧΆΣΜΑ ΜΈΓΑ ἘΣΤΉΡΙΚΤΑΙ. This, as Meyer says, is the argument _ex impossibili_ after the argument _ex aequo. Change of place_ is not a possible way of producing _change of soul_. Dives while he still ha...
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 22. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, a...
_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...
ΜΕΤΑΞΎ (G3342) с _gen._ между, ΧΆΣΜΑ (G5490) разделение, пропасть, ΈΣΤΉΡΙΚΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΣΤΗΡΊΖΩ (G4741) устанавливать, утверждать. _Perf._ показывает, что именно установлено. Богосл. _pa...
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...
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. AND BESIDES AL...
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...
BESIDE ALL THIS] better, 'in all these regions of the dead.' A GREAT GULF FIXED] Somewhat different from the representations of the rabbis, who said (see Ecclesiastes 7:14), 'God hath set the one agai...
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...
THERE IS A GREAT GULF FIXED. — Literally, a _chasm,_ the opening or gaping of the earth. The scene brought before us is like one of the pictures of Dante’s _Commedia_ — steep rocks and a deep gorge, a...
_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...
_In the other world_. ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ : from the O.T. point of view Hades means simply the state of the dead. Thus both the dead men would be in Hades. But here Hades seems = hell, the place of torment, and...
The additional reason in this verse is supplementary to the first, as if to buttress its weakness. For the tormented man might reply: surely it is pressing the principle of equity too far to refuse me...
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...
_Between us and you is fixed a great chaos, or gulf; i.e. God's justice has decreed, that the bad should forever be separated from the good. We may here take notice thta the Latin and Greek word, (ver...
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...
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...
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...
After the short sleep of death, what an awakening! The idea of suffering does not lie in the words ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ, which our versions render by: _in hell. Scheol_ (Heb.), _Hades_ (Gr.), the _Inferi_ or _in...
_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...
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...
26._A vast gulf lieth. _These words describe the permanency of the future state, and denote, that the boundaries which separate the reprobate from the elect can never be broken through. And thus we ar...
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 BESIDES ALL THIS,.... The different circumstances of each, both past and present, which should be observed and considered: BETWEEN US AND YOU THERE IS A GREAT GULF FIXED; as this may regard the s...
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that _would come_ from thence. Ver. 26. _Ther...
_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....
NEITHER CAN THEY PASS; there can be no interchange of places between those in heaven and those in hell....
Another contrast:...
AND BESIDE ALL THIS, BETWEEN US AND YOU THERE IS A GREAT GULF FIXED, SO THAT THEY WHICH WOULD PASS FROM HENCE TO YOU CANNOT; NEITHER CAN THEY PASS TO US THAT WOULD COME FROM THENCE. Here the fortunes...
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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Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul Moreover, the fact that Hades is not in any case opened for (the escape of) any soul, has been firmly established by the Lord in the person of Abraham, in His repres...
Luke 16:26 And G2532 besides G1909 all G3956 this G5125 between G3342 us G2257 and G2532 you G5216 is...
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...
“And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.” The further point,...
Luke 16:26. AND BESIDE ALL THIS. Besides the moral impropriety of granting the request, the wish was an impossible one. God has immutably decreed otherwise: THERE IS A GREAT GULF FIXED. The figure is...
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...
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...
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...
BESIDE ALL THIS (εν πασ τουτοις).IN ALL THESE THINGS (or regions).GULF (χασμα). An old word from χαινω, to yawn, our chasm, a gaping opening. Only here in the N.T.IS FIXED (εστηρικτα). Perfec...
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 IS A DEEP PIT. Permanent and impassible! In the future state, the good and the evil will be separated from each other. [See note at the end of this chapter.]...
_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 16:26 A GREAT CHASM HAS BEEN FIXED by God between heaven and hell. The fate of the dead is unchangeable. ⇐...
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 beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed._ (Chaos, in the Vulgate). Perhaps the rich man, as an increase to his torment was shown as in a vision the heavenly abode of the b...
_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 25:36; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Ezekiel 28:24;...
The meaning is, that there neither is, nor can be, any commerce or interaction between glorified saints and damned sinners; but the state of souls at death is unalterably fixed and stated. Learn, that...