Luke 16:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: ”

• Luke 16:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Five brethren - The number “five” is mentioned merely to preserve the appearance of verisimilitude in the story. It is not to be spiritualized, nor are we to suppose that it has any hidden or ins...

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• Luke 16:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (7) Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: (7) Seeing that we have a most sure rule to live by, laid forth for us in the word of God, men seek...

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• Luke 16:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 w...

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• Luke 16:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I pray . I entreat. Greek. erotao. App-134. to . unto. Greek. eis. App-104.

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• Luke 16:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  27. I beseech thee, father. To bring the narrative into more full accordance with our modes of thinking, he describes the rich man as wishing that his brothers, who were still alive, shou...

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• Luke 16:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

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• Luke 16:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And besides all this, &c.— "Ah poor creature! the time of mercy and hope is now over: God has fixed such a vast and unpassable distance between the happy and the miserable by an irreversible de...

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• Luke 16:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: Then he said - now abandoning all hope, not only of release but relief for himself, and directin...

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• Luke 16:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 il...

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• Luke 16:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I pray thee therefore, father. — The re iterated appeal to Abraham as “father” is suggestive in many ways: (1) as speaking out that in which too many of the rich man’s class put an undue trust, res...

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• Luke 16:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Luke 16:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 whi...

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• Luke 16:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Luke 16:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then he said, I pray thee therefore father ,.... The Cambridge, copy of Beza's, and the Ethiopic version read, "father Abraham"; finding he could have no redress of his misery, nor any relief for hi...

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• Luke 16:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: Ver. 27. I pray thee therefore ] Are not the Popish doctors hard driven, when they allege this text...

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• Luke 16:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Besides all this As to the favour thou desirest from the hand of Lazarus, it is a thing impossible to be granted; for between us and you there is a great gulf fixed Χασμα μεγα εστηρικται, a grea...

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• Luke 16:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• Luke 16:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Unjust Steward.       1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accu...

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• Luke 16:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 27,28. Him that the rich man would not hear, when he lay at his gate full of sores, exhorting him to do good and to distribute, to give alms of all that he had, and to make himself friends of th...

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• Luke 16:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 In...

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• Luke 16:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 16:14-18 . 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 addres...

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• Luke 16:27 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 16:27-28 I. The Scriptures distinctly reveal future punishment. II. In a future state punishment will completely arouse memory. "Son, remember." III. The punishment of hell will be regulate...

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• Luke 16:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 propert...

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• Luke 16:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Luke 16:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 16:1-42 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, a...

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• Luke 16:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;

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