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Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.`
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An Uncrossable, Final Divide
Commentators unanimously agree that the 'great gulf' represents the permanent and unchangeable finality of one's state after death. The Greek word for 'fixed' implies something that has been firmly and permanently established. This isn't about literal geography but about God's immutable decree that makes the separation between heaven and hell absolute and eternal.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A great gulf. The word translated gulf means chasm, or the broad, yawning space between two elevated objects. In this place, it m…
Beside all this (εν πασ τουτοις).
In all these things (or regions).
Gulf (χασμα). …
19th Century
Anglican
There is a great gulf fixed.—Literally, a chasm, the opening or gaping of the earth. The scene brought before us…
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By calling the rich man “son” (cf. 15:31), Abraham conveys something of the compassion God himself shows even to those who spurn him. In a masterly…
16th Century
Protestant
A vast gulf lies. These words describe the permanence of the future state and denote that the boundaries which separate the reprobate from…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And besides all this The different circumstances of each, both past and present, which should be observed and consid…
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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…
