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In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
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A Conscious Separation
Commentators agree this verse depicts a conscious existence immediately after death. They distinguish the Greek word 'Hades' used here (the realm of the dead) from 'Gehenna' (the final place of punishment). In Hades, there is a clear, uncrossable separation between the righteous who are comforted and the unrighteous who are in a state of torment.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In hell. The word translated here as hell (Hades) literally means a dark, obscure place; the place where departed spirits go, but…
In Hades (εν τω Hαιδη). See on Mt 16:18 for discussion of this word. Lazarus was in Hades also for both Paradise (Abraham's bosom)…
19th Century
Anglican
And in hell.—The Greek word is Hades, not Gehenna; the unseen world of the dead, not the final prison of the souls of the lost. (S…
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After his death, Lazarus is escorted by “the angels,” in contrast to the rich man who is merely “buried” (v.22). “Abraham’s side” may picture recli…
16th Century
Protestant
And, lifting up his eyes in hell. Though Christ is relating a history, he describes spiritual things using figures of speech, which he kne…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments Which may design the place of torment, and the miserable state …
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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…
