Lucas 16:23

Filipino Cebuano Bible

23 Ug didto sa Hades, sa nag-antus siya sa mga kasakit, giyahat niya ang iyang mga mata ug iyang nakita si Abraham didto sa halayo ug si Lazaro diha sa iyang sabakan.

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in hell: Psalms 9:17, Psalms 16:10, Psalms 49:15, Psalms 86:13, Proverbs 5:5, Proverbs 7:27, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 15:24, Isaiah 14:9, Isaiah 14:15, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:29, Matthew 18:9, Matthew 23:33, 1 Corinthians 15:55, *marg. 2 Peter 2:4, Revelation 20:13, Revelation 20:14

being: Luke 16:28, Luke 8:28, Matthew 8:29, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 14:11, Revelation 20:10

seeth: Luke 13:28, Luke 13:29, Matthew 8:11, Matthew 8:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:7 - And the 1 Samuel 28:15 - therefore 1 Kings 13:31 - lay my bones 2 Kings 6:20 - opened Job 3:19 - The small Job 4:21 - excellency Job 11:20 - their hope Job 14:10 - where is he Job 14:22 - his soul Job 21:20 - see Psalms 49:9 - That he Psalms 49:19 - He Psalms 73:17 - then Psalms 112:10 - wicked Proverbs 10:2 - Treasures Proverbs 10:28 - but Proverbs 19:10 - Delight Ecclesiastes 2:1 - I will Ecclesiastes 3:21 - knoweth Ecclesiastes 5:13 - riches Isaiah 26:11 - they shall Isaiah 33:14 - everlasting Jeremiah 3:2 - Lift Ezekiel 32:21 - strong Joel 1:5 - for Zephaniah 1:18 - their silver Matthew 12:32 - it shall not Matthew 13:42 - cast Luke 3:8 - We Luke 12:20 - God Luke 15:17 - when Luke 16:25 - remember John 1:18 - in the Acts 2:27 - leave Romans 4:12 - to them 1 Timothy 6:7 - certain Revelation 11:12 - and their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,.... Which may design the place of torment, and the miserable state the Scribes and Pharisees, as all wicked men, enter immediately into upon death, Psalms 9:17 who in their lifetime were blind, and are called blind guides, blind watchmen, blind leaders of the blind, and who were given up to judicial blindness and hardness of heart; but in hell their eyes are opened, and they see their mistakes about the Messiah, and find themselves in torments, under dreadful gnawings, and remorse of conscience; and having a terrible sensation of divine wrath, their worm dies not, and their fire is not quenched: or this may regard the vengeance of God on the Jews, at the destruction of Jerusalem; when a fire was kindled against their land, and burned to the lowest hell; and consumed the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains; and the whole land became brimstone, salt, and burning; and they were rooted out of it in anger, wrath, and great indignation; see Deuteronomy 29:23 or rather, the dreadful calamities which came upon them in the times of Adrian at Bither; when their false Messiah Bar Cochab was taken and slain, and such multitudes of them were destroyed in the most miserable manner z, when that people, who before had their eyes darkened, and a spirit of slumber and stupidity fallen upon them, in those calamities began to be under some convictions:

and seeth Abraham afar off: the covenant of circumcision given to him, and to them his natural seed, now of no use to them; their descent from him, of which they boasted, and in which they trusted, now of no avail; and him in the kingdom of heaven, and themselves thrust out; see Luke 13:28.

And Lazarus in his bosom; they now found the Messiah was come, and was gone to heaven, whither they could not come, John 7:33. The Jews are convinced that the Messiah is born, though not revealed; and they sometimes confess, that he was born the same day Jerusalem was destroyed; and sometimes they say, he sits at the gates of Rome among the lepers, and at other times, that he is in the walks of paradise a. This is said in agreement with the notions of the Jews, that wicked men will see the righteous in happiness, and themselves in torment; by which the latter will be aggravated, to which the allusion is; for they say b,

"the gates of paradise are fixed over against the gates of hell, so that they can see the righteous in rest, and themselves in distress.''

z Vid. Buxtorf. Lex. Talmud. col. 372. a Synagog. Jud. c. 50. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 1. Aben Ezra in Cant. vii. 5. T. Hieros Beracot, fol. 5. 1. b Tzeror Hammor, fol. 125. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In hell - The word here translated hell (“Hades”) means literally a dark, obscure place; the place where departed spirits go, but especially the place where “wicked” spirits go. See the Job 10:21-22 notes; Isaiah 14:9 note. The following circumstances are related of it in this parable:

1. It is “far off” from the abodes of the righteous. Lazarus was seen “afar off.”
2. It is a place of torment.
3. There is a great gulf fixed between that and heaven, Luke 16:26.
4. The suffering is great. It is represented by “torment” in a flame, Luke 16:24.
5. There will be no escape from it, Luke 16:26.

The word “hell” here means, therefore, that dark, obscure, and miserable place, far from heaven, where the wicked shall be punished forever.

He lifted up his eyes - A phrase in common use among the Hebrews, meaning “he looked,” Genesis 13:10; Genesis 18:2; Genesis 31:10; Deuteronomy 8:3; Luke 6:20.

Being in torment - The word “torment” means “pain, anguish” Matthew 4:24; particularly the pain inflicted by the ancients in order to induce people to make confession of their crimes. These “torments” or tortures were the keenest that they could inflict, such as the rack, or scourging, or burning; and the use of the word here denotes that the sufferings of the wicked can be represented only by the extremest forms of human suffering.

And seeth Abraham ... - This was an aggravation of his misery. One of the first things that occurred in hell was to look up, and see the poor man that lay at his gate completely happy. What a contrast! Just now he was rolling in wealth, and the poor man was at his gate. He had no expectation of these sufferings: now they have come upon him, and Lazarus is happy and forever fixed in the paradise of God. It is more, perhaps, than we are authorized to infer, that the wicked will “see” those who are in paradise. That they will “know” that they are there is certain; but we are not to suppose that they will be so near together as to be seen, or as to make conversation possible. These circumstances mean that there will be “a separation,” and that the wicked in hell will be conscious that the righteous, though on earth they were poor or despised, will be in heaven. Heaven and hell will be far from each other, and it will be no small part of the misery of the one that it is far and forever removed from the other.