(vide Weber, Lehre des Talmud, p.
326 {.).- ὅπως implies that the cleft is there for the purpose of preventing transit e#ler way; location fixed and” final
5390
ἐκεῖθεν πρὸς ἡμᾶς διαπερῶσιν.
27. Εἶπε δέ, Ἐρωτῶ οὖν σειὶ πάτερ,
ἵνα πέµψῃς αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρός µου, 25. ἔχω γὰρ πέντε ἀδελφούς: ὅπως διαμαρτύρηται αὐτοῖς, ἵνα μὴ καὶ αὐτοὶ έλθωσιν εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον τῆς βασάνου: 29. λέγει αὐτῷ” ᾽᾿Αβραάμ,
Ἔχουσι Μωσέα καὶ τοὺς προφήτας: ἀκουσάτωσαν αὐτῶν.
3ο. Ὁ δὲ
εἶπεν, Οὐχί, πάτερ ᾽Αβραάμ: ἀλλ ἐάν τις ἀπὸ νεκρῶν πορευθῇ πρὸς
αὐτούς, µετανοήσουσιν.
~ Δ - 31. Εἶπε δὲ αὐτῶ, Ei Μωσέως καὶ τῶν
προφητῶν οὐκ ἀκούουσιν, οὖδέ, ἐάν τις ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῇ, πεισθή-
2» σονται.
1 For ουν σε (Ι.Χ, etc., Tisch.) ABD 69 al. have σε ουν (W.H.).
2 Many authorities (NJBDL, etc.) add δε after Aeyer, and $3BL omit αυτω.
has ειπεν.
Vv. 27-31. Dives intercedes for his brethren.—Ver. 27. ovvw=if no hope for me, there may be for those still dear to me. Possibility of transit from Paradise to earth is assumed. That this is desired reveals humane feeling. No attempt to show that Dives is utterly bad. Is such a man a proper subject for final damna- tion ?—Ver. 28. ἀδελφούς, brothers, in the literal sense. Why force on it an allegorical sense by finding in it a refer- ence to the Pharisees or to the Jewish people, brethren in the sense of fellow- countrymen? Five isarandom number, true to natural probability ; a large enough family to make interest in their eternal well-being on the part of a deceased member very intelligible.—S:apaprvpy- ται, urgently testify to, telling them how it looks beyond, how it fares with their brother, with the solemn impressiveness of one who has seen.—Ver. 29. Μωσέα, etc.: cf. xviii. 20, where Jesus refers the ruler to the commandments. Moses, or the law, and the prophets = the O.T., the appointed, reguiar means of grace.— Ver. 30. οὐχί, a decided negative = nay! that is not enough; so he knew from his own experience; the Scriptures very good doubtless, but men are accustomed to them.—tts ἀπὸ νεκρῶν: something un- usual, the preaching of a dead man returned to life, that might do.—Ver. 31. εἶπε δὲ: Abraham does not plead im- possibility as in reference to the first request ; he simply declares his unbelief in the utility of the plan for converting the five. The denizens of Paradise set little value on the unusual as a means of grace. Abraham does not say that a short-lived sensation could not be pro- duced ; he does say that they would not be persuaded (πεισθήσονται), z.¢., to re-