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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 16:14-31

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 16:14-18. In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addressed to the Pharisees. The thread of connection seems to be the following. The Pharisees derided the teaching of Jesus concerning riches, and plumed themselves upon their righteousness. Jesus contrasts merely outward and legal righteousness with that inward righteousness which approves itself to God (Luke... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Luke 16:30

Luke 16:30 The Future Results of Present Indifference. I. Many read this parable, and are staggered at finding that so little is said against the rich man. What was it by which he so grievously offended? and which caused his being cast into that fire which shall never be quenched? We can only say, from what we read in the parable, that there was in this rich man a complete unmindfulness of others that he was swallowed up in himself. The sick beggar lay at his gate, where he could not have been... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Luke 16:29-31

DISCOURSE: 1550THE HOPELESS STATE OF THOSE WHO DISREGARD THE SCRIPTURESLuke 16:29-31. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.IT is painful to reflect how men follow the footsteps of their forefathers, without ever seriously inquiring whither... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 16:1-31

Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all.Now Jesus is at a supper with the Pharisees; it's on the Sabbath day. And this particular section that we are now in is still in that supper that Jesus was invited to, beginning the fourteenth chapter, where the Pharisees invited Him to the house, set Him up with fellow with dropsy, and so this whole interchange of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 16:1-31

Luke 16:1 . A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods. After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord’s property. The spirit of the parable is, that we should so live in equity with men and in piety towards God, as to ensure the rewards and the gift of righteousness in the life to come. Luke 16:2 . Give an account of thy stewardship. The steward, being now overtaken with poverty, had recourse to the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 16:19-31

Luke 16:19-31There was a certain rich manDives and LazarusI.THE ALLOTMENTS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE ON EARTH ARE NOT ALWAYS EVENLY BASED UPON A REGISTER OF HUMAN DESERT. 1. The rich man is not offered as a luminous exhibition of personal worth (see Luke 16:19-21). 2. On the other hand, Lazarus was a beggar, and frightfully diseased. His condition was pitiable. But it does not follow that he had been immoral, nor that he was under judgment for crime. Neither of these men represented in the parable... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 16:30

30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. Ver. 30. They will repent ] Bellarmine is of the opinion that one glimpse of hell were enough to make a man not only turn Christian and sober, but anchorite and monk; to live after the strictest rule that might be. Such a sight or report might work much upon the judgment, but it is the gospel only that works upon the affections, and produceth repentance never to be repented of. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 16:30

repent: Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5, Revelation 16:9-1 Kings : Reciprocal: Matthew 3:2 - Repent Luke 16:24 - Father Luke 24:37 - General John 11:46 - General Romans 9:7 - because James 2:21 - Abraham read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:1-31

THE PERAEAN MINISTRY, BETWEEN THE FEAST OF DEDICATION AND THE RETIREMENT TO EPHRAIM. Luke 13:22 to Luke 17:10. See Harmony, p. 101. Jesus went to the Feast of Dedication, John 10:22-40. After which, according to John 10:40, he went to beyond Jordan, (Peraea,) where John at first baptized, and there abode. Many, as John assures us, who had the original testimony of the Baptist, were convinced of its fulfilment in him, and became believers on him. Of this PERAEN MINISTRY Luke here gives an... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 16:15-31

Replies of Jesus to the sneers of the Pharisees, Luke 16:15-31. Jesus first shows these haughty deriders how abominable was their own position as the supporters of adultery, 15-18. He then illustrates the fate of the φιλαργυροι , or silver-lovers, by the instance of the rich man and Lazarus. The passage 15-18 is somewhat obscure, but the key of it is perhaps to be found in Luke 16:18. Herod Antipas had been guilty of adultery by his most notorious marriage with Herodias, and the... read more

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