They will repent (μετανοησουσιν). The Rich Man had failed to do this and he now sees that it is the one thing lacking. It is not w…

No. No. They will not hear Moses and the prophets. They have heard them so long in vain, that there is no prospect now that they will atte…

But if one went unto them from the dead.—The words are in accordance with the general Jewish craving for a “sign,” as the…

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…

No, father Abraham. This is a personification, as we have said, which expresses the feelings of the living rather than the anxiety of the …

And he said, nay, father Abraham
He contradicts his father Abraham, or at least desires it might not be so; this way…

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…