1. This account is not a parable, since it doesn't fit the style of a parable (using terms to appeal to everyone; this account is anything but ordinary to the common man). Parables never mention specific names, much less great chasms and conversations with specific information.
2. Jesus honored the beggar Lazarus by telling us his name, but no one knows who the rich man was.
3. Of all the untold millions of wicked people who are no doubt burning in the flames in hades, it's ironic that the rich man was only able to call upon the beggar who was laid at his gate in life for assistance - perhaps indicating that he was the only one he could see; ironic justice.
4. The poor, starving, diseased beggar Lazarus is given the extreme honor in the afterlife of spending time with Abraham, the originator of their people.
5. The rich man is so desperate for relief that a mere touch of a wet finger to his tongue is his fervent desire.
6. Lazarus never says one word to the rich man in hades, nor does the rich man call out to him. It's possible that, being tormented by him in life, God doesn't allow Lazarus to hear his cries while Lazarus is "being comforted." So the rich man gets to forever see the man he ignored being comforted (at least until Jesus carried the blessed in hades up to heaven after the resurrection).
7. Abraham told the rich man that even if someone rose from the dead and witnessed to his still-living brothers, they wouldn't believe. And we see that Jesus rose from the dead, and those disbelieving (like the Pharisees and experts in the law) STILL didn't believe Him, proving Abraham right.
8. It mentions that that the rich man was buried; Lazarus was not. His body was almost certainly thrown into the city's dump.
9. The rich man specifically says that it was a PLACE he was in with flames (not merely a state of being) - "Send Lazarus to warn my brothers so they won't also come to this terrible PLACE."
2. Jesus honored the beggar Lazarus by telling us his name, but no one knows who the rich man was.
3. Of all the untold millions of wicked people who are no doubt burning in the flames in hades, it's ironic that the rich man was only able to call upon the beggar who was laid at his gate in life for assistance - perhaps indicating that he was the only one he could see; ironic justice.
4. The poor, starving, diseased beggar Lazarus is given the extreme honor in the afterlife of spending time with Abraham, the originator of their people.
5. The rich man is so desperate for relief that a mere touch of a wet finger to his tongue is his fervent desire.
6. Lazarus never says one word to the rich man in hades, nor does the rich man call out to him. It's possible that, being tormented by him in life, God doesn't allow Lazarus to hear his cries while Lazarus is "being comforted." So the rich man gets to forever see the man he ignored being comforted (at least until Jesus carried the blessed in hades up to heaven after the resurrection).
7. Abraham told the rich man that even if someone rose from the dead and witnessed to his still-living brothers, they wouldn't believe. And we see that Jesus rose from the dead, and those disbelieving (like the Pharisees and experts in the law) STILL didn't believe Him, proving Abraham right.
8. It mentions that that the rich man was buried; Lazarus was not. His body was almost certainly thrown into the city's dump.
9. The rich man specifically says that it was a PLACE he was in with flames (not merely a state of being) - "Send Lazarus to warn my brothers so they won't also come to this terrible PLACE."
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