Luke 16:20

named Lazarus Lazarus is not from lo ezer, -no help," i.e. -forsaken," but from Eli ezer,-helped of God," Gotthilf.It is contracted from the commoner Eleazar. This is the only parable in which a proper name occurs; and the only miracles of which the recipients are named are Mary Magdalene, Jairus, Malchus, and Bartimaeus. Whether in the name there be some allusive contrast to the young and perhaps wealthy Lazarus, brother of Martha and Mary, as Prof. Plumptre has conjectured, is uncertain. From this parable come the words lazaretto, lazzarini, a lazar, &c.

at his gate Not a mere puttbut a pulona stately portal.