Beside all this (εν πασ τουτοις).

In all these things (or regions).

Gulf (χασμα). …

A great gulf. The word translated gulf means chasm, or the broad, yawning space between two elevated objects. In this place, it m…

There is a great gulf fixed.—Literally, a chasm, the opening or gaping of the earth. The scene brought before us…

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

By calling the rich man “son” (cf. 15:31), Abraham conveys something of the compassion God himself shows even to those who spurn him. In a masterly…

A vast gulf lies. These words describe the permanence of the future state and denote that the boundaries which separate the reprobate from…

And besides all this
The different circumstances of each, both past and present, which should be observed and consid…

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…