Sunday, December 25, 2011
Lazarus and the rich man
I was thinking just the other day about Lazarus and the rich man, and how Lazarus was "in the bosom of Abraham" presumably in heaven, and the rich man (we never learn his name) is in, we assume, the torment of hell, and the rich man is requesting intercession, and then the final comment that even if someone WERE to return from the dead and warn people, they would not take heed. And we do not know that the rich man was wicked but only that he lacked that "oil of compassion" as the five foolish virgins (who WERE VIRGINS = physical purity) but lacked sufficient eleemosynary (oil = elaion) worksÂ
