“ Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. ”
They have Moses - The writings of Moses. The first five books of the Bible. The prophets - The remainder of the Old Testament. What the prophets had written. Hear them - Hear them speak i...
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...
Moses and the prophets. The latter including the historical books. See App-1. Referring to Luke 16:16 . Compare John 1:45 ; John 5:39 ; John 5:46 . Moses . See note on Luke 5:14 .
29. They have Moses and the prophets. In the persons of the rich man and Abraham Christ reminds us, that we have received an undoubted rule of life, and that therefore we have no right...
DISCOURSE: 1550 THE HOPELESS STATE OF THOSE WHO DISREGARD THE SCRIPTURES Luke 16:29-31 . Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Ab...
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. They have Moses and the prophets - This plainly supposes they were all Jewish believers: they had these writings in their...
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...
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them. Still this does not satisfy.
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...
They have Moses and the prophets. — The words are in entire harmony with all the teaching of our Lord. The right use of lower knowledge is the condition of attaining to the higher, and without it s...
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...
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...
(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...
Abraham said unto him ..... In reply to this his request: they have Moses and the prophets ; that is, their writings; which shows this man, and his five brethren, to be Jews; for to them were the...
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. Ver. 29. Let them hear them ] Hell is to be escaped by hearing the word read and preached, John 5:25 ; Isaiah 55:3...
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...
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,...
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...
Christ here represents to us the genius of wicked and carnal men, that would be converted by revelations and some extraordinary signs; if they could see one risen from the dead, then they would belie...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hearing Moses and the Prophets:
2 Peter 1:19-21 ; 2 Timothy 3:15-17 ; Acts 15:21 ; Acts 17:11 ; Acts 17:12 ; Isaiah 34:16 ; Isaiah 8:20 ; John 5:39-45 ; Luke 16:16 ; Malachi 4:2-4