Luke 16:27

27 Then he said, `I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house,

Luke 16:27 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 16:27

Then he said, I pray thee 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 thou wouldst 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 thou wouldst send Lazarus", &c. whom the one calls Gazarus, and the other Eleazar.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 T. Bab. Taanith, fol. 16. 1.

Luke 16:27 In-Context

25 But Abraham said, `Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that they who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from there.'

27 Then he said, `I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house,

28 for I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them lest they also come into this place of torment.'

29 Abraham said unto him, `They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'