Beggar (πτωχος). Original meaning of this old word. See on Mt 5:3. The name Lazarus is from Ελεαζαρος, "God a help," and was a com…

Beggar. Poor man. The original word does not mean beggar, but simply that he was poor. It should have been so translated…

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus.—The word for “beggar,” it may be noted, is the same as the “poor” of Luke 6…

The Venerable Bede: Our Lord had just advised making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, which the Pharisees derided. H…

This paragraph vividly pictures the earthly state of the two people and prepares us for the reversal in vv.22–24, though this is not in itself the …

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus
By whom is designed, not any particular beggar in the times of Christ, …

Here spiritual things are represented in a description of the different states of the good and the bad, in this world and in the next. We are not t…