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He said, `I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father`s house;
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A Sinner's Late Concern
Commentators note that after his own plea for relief is denied, the rich man shows concern for his brothers. His continued address to Abraham as "father" suggests a man who, even in torment, clings to his earthly heritage. His request is seen not as rebellious defiance, but as a desperate, submissive plea from someone who finally understands the consequences of his life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Five brethren. The number five is mentioned merely to preserve the appearance of verisimilitude in the story. It is not to be spiritualize…
That you send him (ινα πεμψηις αυτον). As if he had not had a fair warning and opportunity. The Roman Catholics probably justify p…
19th Century
Anglican
I pray you therefore, father.—The reiterated appeal to Abraham as “father” is suggestive in many ways:
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
I beg you, father. To bring the narrative into fuller accordance with our ways of thinking, he describes the rich man as wishing …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then he said, I pray you therefore father The Cambridge, copy of Beza's, and the Ethiopic version read, "father Abra…
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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…
