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 that of an unfathomable abyss which cannot be spanned. Here our Lord reveals what was unknown to the popular mind of that time.

That. In the world of departed spirits, according to our Lord's imagery, where He deviates from the popular notions, a change of state is impossible; God has so ordered it. Purgatory and repentance after death find no support here.

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