Lukas 16:27

27 And the oisher said, I ask you then, Avraham Avinu, that you may send Elazar to the bais of Avi,

Lukas 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.

Lukas 16:27 In-Context

25 But Avraham Avinu said, Beni, have zikaron (recollection) that you received your tov in the span of your days, and Elazar likewise received the ra’ah. But now he is given nechamah (comfort) here, but you, yisurim (sufferings, torments). [TEHILLIM 17:14]

26 And, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah (a great abyss, chasm), so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able, neither from there to us may they cross over.

27 And the oisher said, I ask you then, Avraham Avinu, that you may send Elazar to the bais of Avi,

28 for I have chamesh achim (five brothers) that he may warn them, lest also they may come to this place of yisurim (torments).

29 But Avraham Avinu says, They have Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim. Let them listen to them.