Luke 16:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. ”

• Luke 16:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Nay - No. They will not hear Moses and the prophets. They have heard them so long in vain, that there is no prospect now that they will attend to the message; but if one should go to them directl...

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• Luke 16:30 - 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 16:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Nay. Greek ouchi. App-105. if. Implying. contingency. See App-118. from . away from. App-104. Contrast the Lord's ek (App-104 in next clause). the dead. No Art. See App-139. repent ....

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• Luke 16:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  30. Nay, father Abraham. This is a personification, as we have said, which expresses rather the feelings of the living than the anxiety of the dead. The doctrine of the Law is little este...

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• Luke 16:30 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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...

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• Luke 16:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. If one went to them from the dead, etc. - Many are desirous to see an inhabitant of the other world, and c...

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• Luke 16:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But if one went unto them, &c.— It is uncertain whether the rich man by "one from the dead," meant an apparition or a resurrection. His words are capable of either sense; yet the quality of the...

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• Luke 16:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said, Nay, father Abraham (giving him the lie), but if one went unto them from the dead, th...

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• Luke 16:30 - 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 16:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  But if one went unto them from the dead. — The words are in accordance with the general Jewish craving for a “sign,” as the only proof of a revelation from God. (See Notes on Matthew 12:33 ; Matt...

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• Luke 16:30 - 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 16:30 - 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 16:30 - 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 16:30 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  VAIN HOPES ‘And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuad...

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• Luke 16:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he said, nay, father Abraham ,.... He contradicts his father Abraham, or at least desires it might not be so; this way he suggests, was not so right, and would not succeed; for he knew his breth...

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• Luke 16:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. Ver. 30. They will repent ] Bellarmine is of the opinion that one glimpse of hell were enough to make...

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• Luke 16:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And he said, Nay, father Abraham , &c. He answered, that the writings of Moses and the prophets had proved ineffectual to himself, and he feared would be so to his brethren; but that they would...

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• Luke 16:30 - 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 16:30 - 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 16:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 30,31. How vain is man in his imaginations: We are prone all of us to think after the rate that this rich man is here brought in speaking; that although persons be deaf to the sound of the word,...

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• Luke 16:30 - 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 16:30 - 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 16:30 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Luke 16:30 The Future Results of Present Indifference. I. Many read this parable, and are staggered at finding that so little is said against the rich man. What was it by which he so grievously o...

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• Luke 16:30 - 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 16:30 - 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 16:30 - 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 16:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Hearing Moses and the Prophets:

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• Luke 16:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Luke 13:3 ; Luke 13:5 ; Revelation 16:9-11

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