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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:30-31

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, yet some sensible evidence of the wrath of God would make a change in their hearts and lives. There is no such thing. There is not, possibly, in all the book of God a text that more speaks the desperate hardness of a sinner’s heart than this, nor a text which looks more dreadfully upon persons sitting under... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 16:14-31

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 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 addressed to the Pharisees. The thread of connection seems to be the following. The Pharisees derided the teaching of Jesus concerning riches, and plumed themselves upon their righteousness. Jesus contrasts merely outward and legal righteousness with that inward righteousness which approves itself to God (Luke... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:14

Luke 16:14 Consider the conduct of the Pharisees, whose weak point had been touched by our Lord's teaching; they adopted the fool's course of mocking at that which they could not deny to be true, but whose truth they did not like to follow into its consequences, namely, into the practical result of a godly, self-denying life. Concerning this mode of dealing with rebuke, I have two remarks to make. I. In the first place, I remark that however foolish a mode it may seem, and however much people... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:17

Luke 16:17 I. My text is true of the Bible as a Book divinely inspired. Since John wrote in his cell at Patmos, and Paul preached in his own hired house at Rome, the world has been turned upside down all old things have passed away, all things on earth have changed but one. Rivalling in its fixedness and more than rivalling in its brightness the stars that saw our world born and shall see it die, that rejoiced in its birth and shall be mourners at its funeral, the Word of our God stands for... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:19-20

Luke 16:19-20 I. It is very important to observe that, in this parable, we have not before us the entire character either of the rich man or Lazarus. The luxurious self-indulgent habit of living is the assumed scriptural characteristic of an unrenewed, worldly mind; and when it is associated with indifference to the suffering that everywhere abounds around us, it is itself a proof that, in such a manner as the love of God is wanting, the spirit of Christ does not dwell. The rich man was not... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:23-24

Luke 16:23-24 Prayer to Saints, and Purgatory. These are two points of doctrine, upon which I think that we may regard this parable as throwing light, without straining its words to purposes for which they were not intended. I. The first doctrine to which I allude is that of prayer to saints. (1) I observe that the description of the resting-place of the blessed, as "Abraham's bosom," is the adoption of a merely Jewish figure for the condition of the departed. To be taken to that place in which... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:25

Luke 16:25 Memory in Another World. "Son, remember." It is the voice, the first voice, the perpetual voice, which meets every man when he steps across the threshold of earth into the presence-chamber of eternity. All the future is so built upon and interwoven with the past, that for the saved and for the lost alike this word might almost be taken as the motto of their whole situation, as the explanation of their whole condition. Memory in another world is indispensable to the gladness of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:27-28

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 regulated by the previous conduct and character of the punished. Hell is a grave in which God places what is not fit to be elsewhere, and from which is absent all but the process of corruption and the workings of destruction. S. Martin, Westminster Chapel Pulpit, 3rd series, p. 165. References: Luke 16:27 . C.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:30

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 offended? and which caused his being cast into that fire which shall never be quenched? We can only say, from what we read in the parable, that there was in this rich man a complete unmindfulness of others that he was swallowed up in himself. The sick beggar lay at his gate, where he could not have been... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:31

Luke 16:31 Let us ask what was the cause which brought on the rich man so terrible a fate? It was not simply his wealth, and it was something from which an observance of the precepts of the Jewish religion would have saved him. What, then, is the character of the rich man as drawn in the parable? It is drawn in two strokes his ordinary life, and his treatment of Lazarus. (1) His daily life was luxurious. But most certainly we have no right to condemn him for that. With the Jewish nobility in... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 16:30-31

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 16:14-31

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:14

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:19-20

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:23-24

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:25

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:27-28

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:30

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:31

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