Luca 12:16

16 Ed egli disse loro una parabola: Le possessioni d’un uomo ricco fruttarono copiosamente.

Luca 12:16 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 12:16

And he spake a parable unto them, saying
He supposed the following case, and made use of it by way of illustration of what he had said:

the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully;
who notwithstanding his riches, was but a fool, as the sequel shows; rich men are not always wise in things natural and civil; and very few of them are spiritually wise, or wise in spiritual things, in things which relate to the welfare of their souls; but however, this man was very prosperous in his worldly affairs, as a man of a small share of common sense may be, and wicked men often are: the word translated "ground", signifies a "region", or "country", which expresses the more, the riches of this man, that he had not a common and ordinary farm, but a whole country as it were; at least a very large part of one, and all this fruitful.

Luca 12:16 In-Context

14 Ma egli disse: O uomo, chi mi ha costituito sopra voi giudice, o partitore?

15 Poi disse loro: Badate, e guardatevi dall’avarizia; perciocchè, benchè alcuno abbondi, egli non ha però la vita per li suoi beni.

16 Ed egli disse loro una parabola: Le possessioni d’un uomo ricco fruttarono copiosamente.

17 Ed egli ragionava fra sè medesimo, dicendo: Che farò? poichè io non ho ove riporre i miei frutti.

18 Poi disse: Questo farò: io disfarò i miei granai, e ne edificherò di maggiori, e quivi riporrò tutte le mie entrate, e i miei beni.