That you send him (ινα πεμψηις αυτον). As if he had not had a fair warning and opportunity. The Roman Catholics probably justify p…

Five brethren. The number five is mentioned merely to preserve the appearance of verisimilitude in the story. It is not to be spiritualize…

I pray you therefore, father.—The reiterated appeal to Abraham as “father” is suggestive in many ways:

1. as ex…

St. Gregory the Great: When the rich man in flames found that all hope was taken away from him, his mind turned to the relative…

This unchangeability comes from a hardness not only toward Christ but also toward “Moses and the Prophets” (cf. Jn 5:46). Not even a spectacular “s…

I beg you, father. To bring the narrative into fuller accordance with our ways of thinking, he describes the rich man as wishing …

Then he said, I pray you therefore father
The Cambridge, copy of Beza's, and the Ethiopic version read, "father Abra…

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…