(2) The significance of the name, the current Greek form of Eleazar (='God is the helper'), may have been meant to symbolise the outward wretchedness of one who had no other help. (1) There may have been an actual beggar of that name known both to the disciples and the Pharisees. The occurrence in this one solitary instance of a personal name in our Lord's parables, suggests the question, What was meant by it? Three answers present themselves, each of which is more or less compatible with the other two. Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.Įllicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus.-The word for 'beggar,' it may be noted, is the same as the 'poor' of Luke 6:20. Job 2:7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. Luke 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. John 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.Īcts 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple James 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: Luke 18:35-43 And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: …ġ Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. While at his outer door there lay a beggar, Lazarus by name,Ī certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

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