Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 16:31
Neither will they be persuaded — Truly to repent: for this implies an entire change of heart: but a thousand apparitions cannot, effect this. God only can, applying his word.
Neither will they be persuaded — Truly to repent: for this implies an entire change of heart: but a thousand apparitions cannot, effect this. God only can, applying his word.
Verse Luke 16:31. _IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES_, c.] This answer of Abraham contains two remarkable propositions. 1. That the sacred writings contain such proofs of a Divine origin, that though all the de...
BE PERSUADED - Be convinced of the truth; of the danger and folly of their way; of the certainty of their suffering hereafter, and be induced to turn from sin to holiness, and from Satan unto God. Fr...
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...
AND, &c. The lesson of the parable. From these final words of the Lord (Luke 16:31, _B)_ Lightfoot says "it is easy to judge what was the design and intention of this parable" (vol. xii, p. 168). The...
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...
_neither will they be persuaded_, _though one rose from the dead_ "We are saved by faithful hearing, not by apparitions," Bengel. This was most remarkably exemplified in the results which followed the...
DIVES AND LAZARUS: A PARABLE TO THE COVETOUS, PRECEDED BY REBUKES TO THE PHARISEES...
ΠΕΙΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ. “We are saved by faithful hearing, not by apparitions,” Bengel. This was most remarkably exemplified in the results which followed the raising of another Lazarus (John 12:10), and the re...
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...
ΆΚΟΎΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act., см._ Luke 16:29. Ind. в _conj._ 2 типа, в котором говорящий считает условие противоречащим факту. ΆΝΑΣΤΉ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G450) подниматься, вставать. _Conj...
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...
BUT IF ONE WENT UNTO THEM, &C.— It is uncertain whether the rich man by "one from the dead," meant an apparition or a resurrection. His words are capable of either sense; yet the quality of the person...
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 he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER...
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...
IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS. — We are accustomed, rightly enough, to look on our Lord’s own Resurrection as leading to the great fulfilment of these words. We should not forget, however, t...
_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...
εἶπε δὲ : Abraham does not plead impossibility as in reference to the first request; he simply declares his unbelief in the utility of the plan for converting the five. The denizens of Paradise set li...
_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...
If they hear not, Moses, &c. We think that if we saw a man raised from the dead, who should tells us what he had seen and suffered in another world, it would make more impression upon us than past mir...
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 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...
REFLECTIONS Reader! in beholding the character of this unjust steward, let us learn to seek from God grace, that we may be found faithful. And let us, in putting the question to our own hearts, which...
(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...
_VAIN HOPES_ ‘And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuade...
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 HE SAID UNTO HIM..... That is, Abraham said unto him, as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions express it: IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; as they did not, nor regarded what they sai...
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Ver. 31. _Though one rose from the dead_] As Lazarus did, and yet they li...
_And he said, Nay, father Abraham_, &c. He answered, that the writings of Moses and the prophets had proved ineffectual to himself, and he feared would be so to his brethren; but that they would certa...
NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED; persuaded to repent....
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:...
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED THOUGH ONE ROSE FROM THE DEAD. A strange change has come upon the former rich man. Formerly he cared only...
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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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And again, the Lord Himself exhibits Abraham as having said to the rich man, with reference to all those who were still alive: "If they do not obey Moses and the pro...
‘And he said to him, “If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.” ' So Jesus tells him that if they will not listen to the word of God throu...
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 16:31. IF THEY HEAR NOT MOSES, etc. The Old Testament Scriptures were sufficient to lead them to repentance, and if they were not rightly affected by them, no appearance from the other world woul...
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...
NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED (ουδ' πεισθησοντα). First future passive of πειθω. Gressmann calls attention to the fact that Jesus is saying this in the conclusion of the parable. It is a sharp disc...
Luke 16:31 Let us ask what was the cause which brought on the rich man so terrible a fate? It was not simply his wealth, and it was something from which an observance of the precepts of the Jewish rel...
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)....
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 he said unto him_, &c. They will say that Lazarus is a phantom, sent by the spirits of evil to deceive; whereas the writings of Moses and the prophets are inspired, are accepted by the Jews at th...
_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 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Acts 19:8; Acts 26:28; Acts
Be persuaded. Dives had said, "they will repent." Abraham replies, "they will not be even persuaded." Though one rose. Dives had said, "if one went." From the dead [ε κ ν ε κ ρ ω ν]. Dives had said f...
Do miracles prove Jesus’ divine mission? PROBLEM: Beginning with Moses, miracles were given as a proof of the divine mission of His servants (cf. Exodus 4:1-17). Nicodemus knew Jesus was sent from God...
A very awakening text this is, which speaks dreadfully to persons sitting all their days under the ministry of the gospel, and yet find not their understandings enlightened, their judgments convinced,...