Neither will they be persuaded (ουδ' πεισθησοντα). First future passive of πειθω. Gressmann calls attention to the fact that Jesus…

Be persuaded. Be convinced of the truth, of the danger and folly of their way, of the certainty of their suffering hereafter, and be induc…

If they hear not Moses and the prophets.—We are accustomed, rightly enough, to look on our Lord’s own Resurrection as lea…

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…

And he said unto him .
&c.] That is, Abraham said unto him, as the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions express it:…

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…