For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
There is here no waking up of good in the heart of the lost, but, as Trench acutely remarks, bitter reproach against God and the old economy, as not having warned him sufficiently. Abraham's answer rolls back the reproach with calm dignity, as unmerited: 'They are sufficiently warned.'