Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Luke 16:21
The dogs] Since the dog was in the East an unclean animal, the licking was an aggravation of the poor man's misery.
The dogs] Since the dog was in the East an unclean animal, the licking was an aggravation of the poor man's misery.
LUKE 16:21 tw/n pipto,ntwn {B} The more picturesque expression tw/n yici,wn (“the crumbs”) was introduced by copyists from Matthew 15:27....
Verse Luke 16:21. _AND DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE CRUMBS_] And it is likely this desire was complied with, for it is not intimated that he spurned away the poor man from the gate, or that his suit w...
BEGGAR - Poor man. The original word does not mean “beggar,” but simply that he was “poor.” It should have been so translated to keep up the contrast with the “rich man.” NAMED LAZARUS - The word Laz...
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...
DESIRING. eagerly desiring; but in vain, as in Luke 15:16 ("would fain "). WITH. from. Greek. _apo._ App-104. THE CRUMBS. Some texts read "the things". moreover, &c.. but [instead of finding food] e...
_with the crumbs_ The same word as in Matthew 15:27. It is not said that such fragments were refused him. _the dogs_ The only dogs in the East are the wild and neglected Pariah dogs, which run about...
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...
21. The words ψιχίων τῶν are omitted with אBL. 21. ἈΠῸ ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΙΠΤΌΝΤΩΝ. ‘_From the things that fell_.’ The word ψιχίων in some MSS. is a reminiscence of Matthew 15:27. The clause καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐδίδου αὐτ...
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 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...
_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...
ΈΠΙΘΥΜΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΠΙΘΥΜΈΩ (G1937) желать, жаждать. Лука использует это слово с _inf._ для выражения неисполненного желания или стремления (Jeremias, Parables), ΧΟΡΤΑΣΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass....
A CERTAIN BEGGAR, NAMED LAZARUS,— An exceedingly emphatic name; for it seems to be derived from עזר לא _Laozer,_ which signifies _a helpless person._ Some have imagined, from the name of Lazarus and t...
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 desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. AND DESIRING TO BE FED [ epithumoon (G1937 ) chortastheenai (G5526 )] with...
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...
AND DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE CRUMBS. — The habits of the East, the absence of knives and forks and the like, made the amount of waste of this kind larger than do the habits of modern Europe. (Comp....
ἐπιθυμῶν, desiring, perhaps not intended to suggest that his desire was not gratified. Suppose morsels did come to him from the rich man's table, not meant for him specially, but for the hungry withou...
_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...
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...
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 terrestrial scene, Luke 16:19-22. It embraces four portraitures which, taken two and two, form counterparts of one another: the life of the rich man, Luke 16:19, and that of the poor man, Luke 16:...
_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...
(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...
21._And even the dogs came. _It was quite enough to prove the hardened cruelty of the _rich man, _that the sight of wretchedness like this did not move him to compassion. Had there been a drop of huma...
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 DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE CRUMBS,.... The offal food, broken bread, fragments of meat: that food which falls from the knife, or plate, in eating, and from thence on the ground; and literally und...
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Ver. 21. _And desiring to be fed with the crumbs_] Many poor folk have but pr...
_And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus_ According to the Greek pronunciation; or _Eliazar_, according to the Hebrew; a name very proper for a person in such a condition, signifying, _the help o...
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....
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, THE BEGGAR. Luke 16:19 A contrast in fortunes:...
AND DESIRING TO BE FED WITH THE CRUMBS WHICH FELL FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE; MOREOVER, THE DOGS CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES. Although, for the lesson of this story, it is immaterial whether it is a para...
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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Luke 16:21 G2532 desiring G1937 (G5723) fed G5526 (G5683) with G575 crumbs G5589 which G3588 fell...
‘And a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.' Ther...
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 16:21. AND DESIRING TO BE FILLED, etc. Some think he did not even obtain this desire, and thus heighten the negligence of the rich man. THE CRUMBS WHICH FELL, lit, ‘the things which fell;' the...
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...
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...
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...
WITH THE CRUMBS THAT FELL (απο των πιπτοντων). From the things that fell from time to time. The language reminds one of Luke 15:16 (the prodigal son) and the Syro-Phoenician woman (Mark 7:28). Only...
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 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 16:21 There is no indication that the rich man gave Lazarus anything. DOGS CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES. The reference here is not to friendly household pets but to dogs that ran wild i...
_And dogs came and licked his sores._ Francis Lucas thinks that they did this as if feeding on a dead body, and that they thus caused the poor sufferer much pain, for, S. Chrysostom adds, "he had not...
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...
_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 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 11:27; John 6:12; Mark 7:28;...
Desiring [ε π ι θ υ μ ω ν]. Eagerly, and not receiving what he desired. The same thing is implied in the story of the prodigal, where the same word is used, "he would fain have been filled" (ch. 14 16...