John Gill Commentary Luke 16:27

"And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father`s house;" — Luke 16:27 (ASV)

Then he said, I pray you therefore father
The Cambridge, copy of Beza's, and the Ethiopic version read, "father Abraham"; finding he could have no redress of his misery, nor any relief for himself, he applies for others:

that you would send him to my father's house ;
the house of Israel and Jacob, the surviving Jews: and this agrees also with a notion of theirs, that the dead seek for mercy for them ^F12 . The Persic and Ethiopic versions read, "that you would send Lazarus", &c. whom the one calls Gazarus, and the other Eleazar.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 16. 1.