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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Luke 16:25 - 16:25
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Son - stinging acknowledgment of the claimed relationship.
thou ... Lazarus, etc. - As it is a great law of God’s kingdom, that the nature of our present desires shall rule that of our future bliss, so by that law, he whose “good things,” craved and enjoyed, were all bounded by time, could look for none after his connection with time had come to an end (Luk 6:24). But by this law, he whose “evil things,” all crowded into the present life, drove him to seek, and find, consolation in a life beyond the grave, is by death released from all evil and ushered into unmixed and uninterrupted good (Luk 6:21). (2) It is impossible.