Luke 16:25

Luke 16:25. Son. The relation is acknowledged, in a tone of pity and tenderness, but that is of no avail.

Remember. Memory remains and is intensified in that state ; it is here appealed to so as to prove to the man in torment the picture of his lot.

In thy life-time. Contrasted with ‘now.'

Didst receive. So that there is nothing left to be given you.

Thy good things. Thy is emphatic ; what he had on earth, his wealth, was regarded as his chief good. Hence he received all his portion there. The connection with the preceding parable suggests that if he had made friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, there would have been some of the ‘good things' available for another world.

Lazarus in like manner evil things. All the good for one had come on earth; ‘in like manner' all the evil for the other.

But now, etc. The reason was not that Lazarus had been poor and the other man rich. It was the rich man's estimate of his wealth, of which Abraham spoke. So we may infer that it was the conduct of Lazarus under affliction and poverty which is alluded to. Comp. also Luke 16:27-31.