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Luke 16 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Luke 16, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
- 26
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
Luke 16 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ἀβραάμ | Abraám | G11 | 6 | Abraham |
| Λάζαρος | Lázaros | G2976 | 4 | Lazarus |
| πλούσιος | ploúsios | G4145 | 4 | rich |
| μαμωνᾶς | mammōnâs | G3126 | 3 | mammon |
| δέχομαι | déchomai | G1209 | 4 | accept, receive, take |
| πιστός | pistós | G4103 | 4 | believe, faithful, sure, true |
| οἰκονομία | oikonomía | G3622 | 3 | dispensation, stewardship |
How preachers through history handled this text
26 public-domain excerpts on Luke 16, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Here the spiritual things are represented, in a description of the different state of good and bad, in this world and in the other. We are not told that the rich man got his estate by fraud, or oppression; but Christ shows, that a man may have a great deal of the wealth, pomp, and pleasure of this world, yet perish for ever under God's wrath and curse. The sin of this rich man was his providing for himself only. Here is a godly man, and one that will hereafter be happy for ever, in the depth of adversity and distress. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Luke 16:19–50 (Public Domain)
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