Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 16:31 - 16:31

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | Download

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Luke 16:31 - 16:31


(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

31. πεισθήσονται. “We are saved by faithful hearing, not by apparitions,” Bengel. This was most remarkably exemplified in the results which followed the raising of another Lazarus (Joh 12:10), and the resurrection of our Lord Himself (Mat 28:11-13). Observe that the reply of Abraham (‘be persuaded,’ ‘arose,’ ‘from among’ [ἐκ not ἀπὸ] the dead) is much stronger than the words used by Dives. “A far mightier miracle … would be ineffectual for producing a far slighter effect,” Trench.