Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
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Study Note
The parable's nameless rich man, 'clothed in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously every day,' is depicted through markers of extreme luxury — purple dye was among the most expensive commodities in antiquity — while Lazarus lay at his gate, unnamed in life but named in death. The reversal structure (rich man in torment, poor man in Abraham's bosom) fulfils Mary's Magnificat (Luke 1:52-53: 'he hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away') and the Beatitudes' woes. The parable does not condemn wealth per se but the hardened indifference to suffering at one's own threshold — a form of practical atheism that treats neighbour-love as optional. James 2:14-17 provides epistolary commentary on the same failure to translate faith into concrete material solidarity.
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Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:
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