Luke 16:25

ὧδε. The ὅδε of the Rec[293] is a correction or a clerical error.

[293] Rec. The Textus Receptus.

25. τέκνον. ‘Child.’ Even in the punishment of Hades he is addressed by a word of tenderness (Luke 15:31; Luke 19:9).

ἀπέλαβες. ‘Receivedst to the full.’ Comp. ἀπέχειν, Luke 6:24.

τὰ�. The “good things” of Dives were such as he had accounted to be absolutely his own, and to be really good (Matthew 6:2); the “evil things” of Lazarus were not ‘his,’ but part of God’s merciful discipline to him, Revelation 7:14. The parable gives no ground for the interpretation that the temporal felicity of Dives was a reward for any good things he had done, or the misery of Lazarus a punishment for his temporal sins.

νῦν δὲ ὧδε. ‘But now, here.’

ὀδυνᾶσαι. ‘Thou art pained,’ as before. The parable is practically an expansion of the beatitudes and woes of Luke 6:22-25.