LUKE 16:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:”
He answered, then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family — the second request shifts from personal relief (water for my tongue) to family intercession: send Lazarus to warn my family. The concern for the five brothers is the first apparently selfless moment in the rich man's story.
Church Fathers on Luke 16:27
When the rich man in flames found that all hope was taken away from him, his mind turns to those relations whom he had left behind, as it is said, Then said he, I pray you therefore, father Abraham, to send him to my father’s house.
He asks that Lazarus should be sent, because he felt himself unworthy to offer testimony to the truth. And as he had not obtained even to be cooled for a little while, much less does he expect to be set free from hell for the preaching of the truth.
Now mark his perverseness; not even in the midst of his torments does he keep to truth. If Abraham is your father, how say you, Send him to your father’s house? But you have not forgotten your father, for he has been your ruin.
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