25, 26. Son--stinging acknowledgment of the claimed relationship.
thou . . . Lazarus, &c.--As it is a great law of God's
kingdom, that the nature of our present desires shall rule that of
our future bliss, so by that law, he whose "good things," craved
and enjoyed, were all bounded by time, could look for none after his
connection with time had come to an end
(Lu 6:24).
But by this law, he whose "evil things," all crowded into the present
life, drove him to seek, and find, consolation in a life beyond the
grave, is by death released from all evil and ushered into unmixed and
uninterrupted good
(Lu 6:21).
(2) It is impossible.
JFB.
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