Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Luke 16:21
desiring to be fed with—but was not [GROTIUS, BENGEL, MEYER, TRENCH, etc.]. The words may mean indeed "was fain to feed on," or "gladly fed on," as in Luke 15:16 [ALFORD, WEBSTER and WILKINSON, etc.]. But the context rather favors the former.
licked, etc.—a touching act of brute pity, in the absence of human relief. It is a case of heartless indifference, amidst luxuries of every kind, to one of God's poorest and most afflicted ones, presented daily before the eye.
Luke 16:20-21
laid—having to be carried and put down.
full of sores—open, running, "not closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with ointment" (Isaiah 1:6).
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