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18 a“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.  

The Rich Man and Lazarus

19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and1 fared sumptuously every day.  
20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,
21 desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.  
22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to aAbraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.  
23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and acool my tongue; for I bam tormented in this flame.’  
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Luke 16:20

Beggar (ptwxov). Original meaning of this old word. See on Matthew 5:3. The name Lazarus is from Eleazarov, "God a help," and was a common one. Lazar in English means one afflicted with a pestilential disease.

Was laid (ebeblhto). Past perfect passive of the common verb ballw. He had been flung there and was still there, "as if contemptuous roughness is implied" (Plummer).

At his gate (prov ton pulwna autou). Right in front of the large portico or gateway, not necessarily a part of the grand house, porch in Matthew 26:71.

Full of sores (eilkwmenov). Perfect passive participle of elkow, to make sore, to ulcerate, from elkov, ulcer (Latin ulcus). See use of elkov in verse Luke 16:21. Common in Hippocrates and other medical writers. Here only in the N.T.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 16:20:

Matthew 5:3
Luke 6:25
John 5:7
John 11:1
Revelation 21:12

 

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