In Hades (εν τω Hαιδη). See on Mt 16:18 for discussion of this word. Lazarus was in Hades also for both Paradise (Abraham's bosom)…

In hell. The word translated here as hell (Hades) literally means a dark, obscure place; the place where departed spirits go, but…

And in hell.—The Greek word is Hades, not Gehenna; the unseen world of the dead, not the final prison of the souls of the lost. (S…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: We have heard how both fared on earth; let us see what their condition is among the dead. That which…

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, lifting up his eyes in hell. Though Christ is relating a history, he describes spiritual things using figures of speech, which he kne…

And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments
Which may design the place of torment, and the miserable state …

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…