With the crumbs that fell (απο των πιπτοντων). From the things that fell from time to time. The language reminds one of Lu 15:16 (…

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

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs. The habits of the East, the absence of knives, forks, and the like, made the amount of was…

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

After his death, Lazarus is escorted by “the angels,” in contrast to the rich man who is merely “buried” (v.22). “Abraham’s side” may picture recli…

And even the dogs came. It was quite enough to prove the hardened cruelty of the rich man, that the sight of wretchedness like th…

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs
The offal food, broken bread, fragments of meat: that food which falls from t…

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…