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Proper 21 C
Unless Jesus returns before
 September 25, 2016
19th Sunday After Pentecost; 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

What It Takes to Believe

"And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.- Luke 16:31
 

 

 

 

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Catholic

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First

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15

Amos 6:1, 4-7

Amos 6:1-7

Second

1 Timothy 6:6-19

First Timothy 6:11-16

1 Timothy 6:11-19

Psalm

91:1-6, 14-16

146:7, 8-9, 9-10

Luke 16:19-31

Gospel

Luke 16:19-31

Luke 16:19-31

146 or 146:4-9

 

 

Quotes & Notes on:     Luke 16:31   

  • John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755):
    Truly to repent: for this implies an entire change of heart: but a thousand apparitions cannot, effect this. God only can, applying his word.

  • Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984): 
    Those who are unmoved by the message of Scripture will not be convicned by a miracle either, even by a resurrection.

  • - Fuller, p.508
     
  • William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:
    [The parable] points out that the law, which has just been under discussion, is understood better by the religiously disenfranchised than by the supercilious Pharisees.


  • - Interpreter's, p. 695  
     
  • J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:

     To be posted.
     

  • I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:

     To be posted.
     

  • David Guzik, Study Guide:
    To be posted.
     

  • Chuck Smith, Study Guide:
    To be posted.
     

  • Catechism of the Catholic Church:
    Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of sin.


  • - Catholic Catechism, para. 1859 .
     
  • The drama of hunger in the world calls Christians who pray sincerely to exercise responsibility toward their brethren, both in their personal behavior and in their solidarity with the human family.  This petition of the Lord's Prayer ["Give us this day our daily bread"] cannot be isolated from the parables of the poor man Lazarus and of the Last Judgment.

  • - Catholic Catechism, para. 2831
     
  • J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960:

    To be posted.
     

  • Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929):

    To be posted.
     

  • D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866:

    To be posted.
     

  • Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901:

    To be posted.
     

  • Anchor Bible:

  • Those who reject or care not about God's word in "Moses and the prophets" will not be moved by the testimony of such a messenger even from death's realm.

  • - Fitzmyer, Joseph A., Trans., Anchor Bible, Vol. Luke X-XXIV, p.1135
     
  • The Fourfold Gospel:

     These words might sound like an overstatement of the obduracy of unbelief were they not amply verified by the literal facts. Jesus had already raised at least two from the dead as witnesses to his divine power, and he was about to raise a third, who, with startling suggestiveness, would bear this very name of Lazarus. But despite all these witnesses the majority of the Jews disbelieved and continued to disbelieve in him; nay, they even went so far as to seek the death of Lazarus that they might be rid of his testimony (Joh 12:10). This is also a reference to Jesus' own resurrection. It is true that he did not appear in person to those who disbelieved in him, but they had clear knowledge of his resurrection (Mt 28:11-15), and it was considered as proved to all men (Ac 17:31).
     

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

    * Moses Joh 5:45-47
    * neither. Joh 11:43-53; 12:10,11; 2Co 4:3
    * be persuaded. Ge 9:27*marg:| Ac 19:8; 26:28; 28:23; 2Co 5:11
     

  • Robertson's Word Pictures:
     Neither will they be persuaded (oud' peisthêsontai). First future passive of peithô. Gressmann calls attention to the fact that Jesus is saying this in the conclusion of the parable. It is a sharp discouragement against efforts today to communicate with the dead. "Saul was not led to repentance when he saw Samuel at Endor nor were the Pharisees when they saw Lazarus come forth from the tomb. The Pharisees tried to put Lazarus to death and to explain away the resurrection of Jesus" (Plummer). Alford comments on the curious fact that Lazarus was the name of the one who did rise from the dead but whose return from the dead "was the immediate exciting cause of their (Pharisees) crowning act of unbelief."
     

  • William Burkitt's Notes:

    A very awakening text this is, which speaks dreadfully to persons sitting all their days under the ministry of the gospel, and yet find not their understandings enlightened, their judgments convinced, their wills subdued, and their lives reformded by it. Were it possible for such persons to see one come from the dead, yea, from the damned, with the flames of hell about his ears, wringing his hands, and gnashing his teeth, bewailing his misery, and beseeching them to take warning by his example, and in time to acquaint themselves with God, and be at peace; all this would have no farther effect upon them, than to move their passions a little for the present, while the dreadful sound is in their ears: the ordinances of God and not his providences, are the instituted and appointed means for men's conversion and salvation.

    Note then, 1. That no visions or apparitions, no new revelations concerning eternal rewards and punishments, are to be expected from the other world, in order to men's conversion and salvation.

    Note, 2. That the word of God dispensed to us, and the ordinary means of grace enjoyed by us, are more conducible and effectual means to persuade men to repentance, than if one should arise from the dead, and preach unto us. A messenger from the dead cannot bring with him either a more necessary doctrine, or a more certain and infallible doctrine, nor bring with him better arguments for our conviction, than what the scriptures do propound for our consideration; nor can we expect a greater co-operation of the Holy Spirit, or a greater concurrence of divine power, to render a message from the dead more effectual, than does ordinarily attend the ministry of the word.

    Henceforward then, let us not wonder, if when a drunkard drops down dead upon the spot, the companions say one to another, Drink on; if sinners daily tumble one another into the grave, without considering the operation of God's hand; this, to those that consider this text, will not seem strange; For if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be converted, though hundreds of sinners before their eyes drop down dead: nay, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
     

  • Family Bible Notes:

     Neither will they be persuaded; persuaded to repent.
     

  • 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
    No comment on this verse.
     

  • People's New Testament Commentary:

    Neither will they be persuaded, etc. This was demonstrated in the case of Jesus himself. The Jews refused to accept Christ, though Moses and the prophets testified of him. They asked for a sign, and "the sign of the prophet Jonah" [Mt 12:39; 16:4; Lu 11:29,30], his resurrection from the dead, was given. Still they refused to repent. Unbelief is due, not to a lack of evidence, but to a rebellious heart. The seat of skepticism is in the moral nature.
     

  • Albert Barnes' Commentary:

     Be persuaded. Be convinced of the truth; of the danger and folly of their way; of the certainty of their suffering hereafter, and be induced to turn from sin to holiness, and from Satan unto God.

    From this impressive and instructive parable we may learn--

    1st. That the souls of men do not die with their bodies.

    2nd. That the soul is conscious after death; that it does not sleep, as some have supposed, till the morning of the resurrection.

    3rd. That the righteous are taken to a place of happiness immediately at death, and the wicked consigned at once to misery.

    4th. That wealth does not secure from death.

    "How vain are riches to secure Their haughty owners from the grave !"

    The rich, the beautiful, the gay, as well as the poor, go down to the grave. All their pomp and apparel, all their honours, their palaces, and their gold cannot save them. Death can as easily find his way into the splendid mansions of the rich as into the cottages of the poor; and the rich shall turn to the same corruption, and soon, like the poor, be undistinguished from common dust and be unknown.

    5th. We should not envy the condition of the rich.

    "On slippery rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

    "Now let them boast how tall they rise, I'll never envy them again; There they may stand with haughty eyes, Till they plunge deep in endless pain.

    "Their fancied joys how fast they flee! Like dreams, as fleeting and as vain; Their songs of softest harmony Are but a prelude to their pain."



    6th. We should strive for a better inheritance than can be possessed in this life.

    "Now I esteem their mirth and wine Too dear to purchase with my blood: Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine-- My life, my portion, and my God."

    7th. The sufferings of the wicked in hell will be indescribably great. Think what is represented by torment; by burning flame; by insupportable thirst; by that state where a single drop of water would afford relief. Remember that all this is but a representation of the pains of the damned, and that this will have no intermission day or night, but will continue from year to year, and age to age, without any end, and you have a faint view of the sufferings of those who are in hell.

    8th. There is a place of sufferings beyond the grave--a hell. If there is not, then this parable has no meaning. It is impossible to make anything of it unless it be designed to teach that.

    9th. There will never be any escape from those gloomy regions. There is a gulf fixed-:fixed, not movable. Nor can any of the damned beat a pathway across this gulf to the world of holiness.

    10th. We see the amazing folly of those who suppose there may be an end to the sufferings of the wicked, and who, on that supposition, seem willing to go down to hell to suffer a long time, rather than go at once to heaven. If man were to suffer but a thousand years, or even one year, why should he be so foolish as to choose that suffering rather than go at once to heaven, and be happy at once when he dies?

    11th. God gives us sufficient warning to prepare for death. He has sent his Word, his servants, his Son; he warns us by his Spirit and his providence; by the entreaties of our friends and by the death of sinners; he offers us heaven, and he threatens hell. If all this will not move sinners, what would do it? There is nothing that would.

    12th. God will give us nothing farther to warn us. No dead man will come to life to tell us of what he has seen. If he did, we would not believe him. Religion appeals to man not by ghosts and frightful apparitions. It appeals to their reason, their conscience, their hopes, their fears. It sets life and death soberly before men, and if they will not choose the former, they must die. If you will not hear the Son of God and the warnings of the Scriptures, there is nothing which you will or can hear. You will never be persuaded, and will never escape the place of torment.

    {v} "If they hear not" 2Co 4:3
    {w} "neither will they be persuaded" Joh 12:10,11
     

  • Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

    No comment on this verse.
     

  • Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:

    If the Word of God and the ministry of the gospel be not enough to convert men, there is no hope for them; even a preacher sent from the eternal world would have no power over them, they would scorn his message. Are any of us unsaved? Let us see our condition, and yield to the gospel's call. However happy our life may be in this world, it were better for us that we had never been born than that we should live and die unsaved. O Eternity, Eternity! What must it be to lose thy heavenly joys! What must it be to sink into thine infinite woes!
     

  • Adam Clarke's Commentary:

     If they hear not Moses, &c.] This answer of Abraham contains two remarkable propositions. 1. That the sacred writings contain such proofs of a Divine origin, that though all the dead were to arise, to convince an unbeliever of the truths therein declared, the conviction could not be greater, nor the proof more evident, of the divinity and truth of these sacred records, than that which themselves afford. 2. That to escape eternal perdition, and get at last into eternal glory, a man is to receive the testimonies of God, and to walk according to their dictates. And these two things show the sufficiency and perfection of the sacred writings. What influence could the personal appearance of a spirit have on an unbelieving and corrupted heart? None, except to terrify it for the moment, and afterwards to leave it ten thousand reasons for uncertainty and doubt. Christ caused this to be exemplified, in the most literal manner, by raising Lazarus from the dead. And did this convince the unbelieving Jews? No. They were so much the more enraged; and from that moment conspired both the death of Lazarus and of Christ! Faith is satisfied with such proofs as God is pleased to afford! Infidelity never has enow. See a Sermon on this subject, by the author of this work.

    To make the parable of the unjust steward still more profitable, let every man consider:-

    1. That God is his master, and the author of all the good he enjoys, whether it be spiritual or temporal.

    2. That every man is only a steward, not a proprietor of those things.

    3. That all must give an account to God, how they have used or abused the blessings with which they have been entrusted.

    4. That the goods which God has entrusted to our care are goods of body and soul: goods of nature and grace: of birth and education: His word, Spirit, and ordinances: goods of life, health, genius, strength, dignity, riches; and even poverty itself is often a blessing from the hand of God.

    5. That all these may be improved to God's honour, our good, and our neighbour's edification and comfort.

    6. That the time is coming in which we shall be called to an account before God, concerning the use we have made of the good things with which he has entrusted us.

    7. That we may, even now, be accused before our Maker, of the awful crime of wasting our Lord's substance.

    8. That if this crime can be proved against us, we are in immediate danger of being deprived of all the blessings which we have thus abused, and of being separated from God and the glory of his power for ever.

    9. That on hearing of the danger to which we are exposed, though we cannot dig to purchase salvation, yet we must beg, incessantly beg, at the throne of grace for mercy to pardon all that is past.

    10. That not a moment is to be lost: the arrest of death may have gone out against us; and this very night-hour-minute, our souls may be required of us. Let us therefore learn wisdom from the prudent despatch which a worldly-minded man would use to retrieve his ruinous circumstances; and watch and pray, and use the little spark of the Divine light which yet remains, but which is ready to die, that we may escape the gulf of perdition, and obtain some humble place in the heaven of glory. Our wants are pressing; God calls loudly; and eternity is at hand!
     

  • Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

    No comment on this verse.

     

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    Luke  16:19-31

    19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 
    20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 
    21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 
    22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 
    23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 
    24 And 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 cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 
    25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 
    26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 
    27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 
    28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 
    29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 
    30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 
    31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. 

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