LUKE 16:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.”
For I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment — five brothers: the family who lived the same way the rich man lived, presumably facing the same fate. Let him warn them: the desire for a special messenger to prevent the brothers from arriving in torment.
Church Fathers on Luke 16:28
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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