This, however, is an allegorizing of the parable which, though attractive at first sight, will not bear close examination.Ĥ. Closely connected with this opinion is another which has the support of Ambrose, Augustine, Teclman (quoted by Trench, Parables), and others, according to which, while Lazarus is Christ, Dives is the Jewish people who despised and rejected Him who for their sakes was poor and afflicted. Another equally improbable suggestion, put forward by Michaelis, is that Dives represents Caiaphas, son-in-law of Annas, and that Lazarus is Christ and so the five brethren of the rich man are explained as the five sons of Annas (Josephus Ant. This, however, is surely an extravagant notion which scarcely needs refutation.Ģ. 18, where our Lord speaks about adultery. Some, as Tertullian and Schleiermacher, have supposed that in Dives allusion was made to Herod Antipas, and that Lazarus represents John the Baptist, who is referred to in v. Lazarus, while the other chief character, the rich man, is significantly nameless, and that the parable has no prefatory introduction, such as ‘He spake another parable,’ or the like, have given rise to the conjecture that this is not a parable pure and simple, but that it is either a narrative of facts, or that persons more or less known are alluded to in the story.ġ. The noticeable circumstances that in this alone of all His parables our Lord names one of the characters, i.e. he is a heggere of helle.’Īlthough we are not concerned in this article with the interpretation of the parable as a whole, we may yet appropriately refer to the various opinions which have been held as to who was intended by our Lord under the figure of the rich man. and in douce uye Īnd now he buyeth hit ful bitere. This use of the word Dives, derived, no doubt, from the Vulgate, is common in English literature, and can be traced back at least to the time of Chancer, who, in The Somnour’s Tale, lines 169, 170, says:Ĭompare also Piers the Plowman, passus xvi. McClintock and Strong's Bible EncyclopediaĭIVES.-The Latin adjective for ‘rich,’ commonly employed as a quasi-proper name for the rich man in our Lord’s parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus ( Luke 16:19-31). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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