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- Title
THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, ABRAHAM'S BOSOM, AND THE BIBLICAL PENALTY KARET ("CUT OFF").
- Authors
CHRISTIAN, ED
- Abstract
The post-death setting of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19- 31) is unusual. Many have assumed that the place Lazarus is taken after he dies, "Abraham's bosom," is in heaven. However, Hippolytus (ca. 170-236), called by the Catholic Encyclopedia "the most important theologian and the most prolific religious writer of the Roman Church in the pre-Constantinian era," believed that hades is the equivalent of sheol, a place where "the souls of the righteous and unrighteous are detained," separated by a gulf, and that "Abraham's bosom" is a name for where the righteous are kept, in peace, in hades. To be in "Abraham's bosom" is synonomous with being "gathered to one's fathers" after death, awaiting eventual resurrection. This viewpoint suggests that the OT penalty of being "cut off" (karet) means to be cut off from one's fathers after death, the fate of the rich man.
- Subjects
AFTERLIFE in Christianity; LAZARUS in the bosom of Abraham (Motif); RICH Man &; Lazarus (Parable); HIPPOLYTUS, Antipope, ca. 170-235 or 6; HELL; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2018, Vol 61, Issue 3, p513
- ISSN
0360-8808
- Publication type
Article