Luke Chapter 16 verse 27 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 16:27

And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;
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BBE Luke 16:27

And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
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DARBY Luke 16:27

And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,
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KJV Luke 16:27

Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
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WBT Luke 16:27


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WEB Luke 16:27

"He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;
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YLT Luke 16:27

`And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 27, 28. - Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them; lest they also come into this place of torment. The condemned acquiesces in this dread fact; convinced of the utter impossibility of any interchange of sympathy between him and the dwellers in the realms of bliss, he ceases to pray for any alleviation of his own sad and wretched state. But another wail of woe quickly rises from the awful solitude. What means this second prayer of the doomed man? Are we to read in it the first signs of a new and noble purpose in the lost soul, the first dawning of loving thoughts and tender care for others? It seems, perhaps, unkind not to recognize this; but the Divine Speaker evidently had another purpose here when he put these words into the mouth of the lost rich man - he would teach the great lesson to the living that a selfish life is inexcusable. On first thoughts, the rich man's request to Abraham appears prompted alone by his anxiety for the future of his brothers who were still alive; but on examination it would seem, to use the striking words of Professor Bruce, that he wished rather to justify his own sad past by some such. reflection as this: "Had only some one come from the dead with the calm, clear light of eternity shining in his eyes, to inform me that this life beyond is no table, that Paradise is a place or state of unspeakable bliss, and Gehenna a place or state of unspeakable woe, I should have renounced my voluptuous, selfish ways, and entered on the path of piety and charity. If one had come to me from the dead, I had surely repented, and so should not have come to this place of torment."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) I pray thee therefore, father.--The re iterated appeal to Abraham as "father" is suggestive in many ways: (1) as speaking out that in which too many of the rich man's class put an undue trust, resting on the fatherhood of Abraham rather than on that of God (Matthew 3:9); (2) as showing that the refusal of the previous verse had been accepted, as it were, submissively. There is no rebellious defiance, no blasphemous execration, such as men have pictured to themselves as resounding ever more in the realms of darkness. Abraham is the sufferer's father still, and he yet counts on his sympathy.