Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Luke 16:20
A certain beggar. Beggary, such as is here depicted, is much more
common in the East than with us, and, in the absence of any more
systematic provision, alms-giving to the poor was insisted upon by the
Old Testament (Job 29:13 Ps 41:1 112:9 Pr 14:31).
Named Lazarus. Augustine says:
``Does not Christ seem to you to have been reading in that book
where the found the name of the poor man written, but found
not the name of the rich? For that book is the Book of Life.'
Laid at his gate. Carried there because unable to walk. At the gate,
where so many were passing, would be a favorable place for alms.
Full of sores. Cutaneous sores are most common in connection with
abject poverty.
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Luke 16:20
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