Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, You foolish one, this night is your soul required of you, and the things which you have prepared, whose shall they be?” But that night God told him what a fool he was. For far from enjoying many years of luxury while others starved, that night his inner spirit, his ‘soul’, was to be required of him. And then he would have to leave all his wealth behind (compare Psalms 39:6). And others would enjoy the benefits that he had sought for himself. And he would be left with... read more
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 12:19
“And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.” And he would tell his own inner heart, his spirit within, that now he had secured his future. He had plenty laid up for it, and he could now retire and enjoy the fruit of all his past hard work and his hard earned wealth. He did not take into account that it was God Who had given him the corn and the wine (Hosea 2:8; Deuteronomy 15:10). For a man speaking to his own soul in this... read more