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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 16:1-31

Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all.Now Jesus is at a supper with the Pharisees; it's on the Sabbath day. And this particular section that we are now in is still in that supper that Jesus was invited to, beginning the fourteenth chapter, where the Pharisees invited Him to the house, set Him up with fellow with dropsy, and so this whole interchange of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 16:1-31

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 property. The spirit of the parable is, that we should so live in equity with men and in piety towards God, as to ensure the rewards and the gift of righteousness in the life to come. Luke 16:2 . Give an account of thy stewardship. The steward, being now overtaken with poverty, had recourse to the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 16:19-31

Luke 16:19-31There was a certain rich manDives and LazarusI.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 a luminous exhibition of personal worth (see Luke 16:19-21). 2. On the other hand, Lazarus was a beggar, and frightfully diseased. His condition was pitiable. But it does not follow that he had been immoral, nor that he was under judgment for crime. Neither of these men represented in the parable... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 16:26

26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Ver. 26. There is a great gulf fixed ] viz. By the unmovable and immutable decree of God, called mountains of brass, Zechariah 6:1 , from between which all effects and actions come forth as so many chariots. εστηρικται . Firmissimum Dei statutum. Jansen. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 16:26

between: 1 Samuel 25:36, Psalms 49:14, Ezekiel 28:24, Malachi 3:18, 2 Thessalonians 1:4-2 Samuel :, James 1:11, James 1:12, James 5:1-Judges : they pass: Luke 12:59, Psalms 50:22, Matthew 25:46, John 3:36, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Revelation 20:10, Revelation 22:11 Reciprocal: Job 10:22 - the shadow of death Psalms 77:8 - Is his Proverbs 23:32 - At Ecclesiastes 9:4 - General Isaiah 38:18 - they that Ezekiel 42:20 - a separation Matthew 5:26 - Thou Matthew 27:4 - see Romans 9:10 - not only 1... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 16:26

And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.Beside this there is a great gulf fixed — Reader, to which side of it wilt thou go? read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:1-31

THE PERAEAN MINISTRY, BETWEEN THE FEAST OF DEDICATION AND THE RETIREMENT TO EPHRAIM. Luke 13:22 to Luke 17:10. See Harmony, p. 101. Jesus went to the Feast of Dedication, John 10:22-40. After which, according to John 10:40, he went to beyond Jordan, (Peraea,) where John at first baptized, and there abode. Many, as John assures us, who had the original testimony of the Baptist, were convinced of its fulfilment in him, and became believers on him. Of this PERAEN MINISTRY Luke here gives an... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:15-31

Replies of Jesus to the sneers of the Pharisees, Luke 16:15-31. Jesus first shows these haughty deriders how abominable was their own position as the supporters of adultery, 15-18. He then illustrates the fate of the φιλαργυροι , or silver-lovers, by the instance of the rich man and Lazarus. The passage 15-18 is somewhat obscure, but the key of it is perhaps to be found in Luke 16:18. Herod Antipas had been guilty of adultery by his most notorious marriage with Herodias, and the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:19-31

Jesus’s second reply to his deriders The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Luke 16:19-31. Is this a parable or history? The answer depends very much upon the definition we give of a parable. The parable may be strictly a fictitious narrative, in which symbols are used to represent some other object, as the lost sheep to represent a sinner, or the mustard seed the Gospel. In this sense it is no parable; for the rich man represents not some other self or thing, but his own self; namely, a... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:26

26. A great gulf A chasm, or gorge; one impossible for even the disembodied spirit to overpass. Fixed Permanently established. We have thus, as far as sense can conceive, a complete view of the invisible state of the departed. Two regions there are of settled bliss and woe, with a broad impassable separation between them. read more

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