Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:
All Commentaries on Luke 16:27 Go To Luke 16
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
In this parable we are taught an important truth, viz. that we must not expect to learn our duty from the dead returning to life, nor by any other extraordinary or miraculous means, but from the revelation of truths, which have already been made known to us in the Scriptures, and from those to whom the tradition of the Church has been committed, as a most sacred deposit. These, say the Fathers, are the masters from whom we are to learn what we are to believe, and what to practise. (Calmet)
