For those who aren't aware, a lot of my stuff is going to be coming from Luke at the moment because I have an ongoing project reading through the Greek New Testament, and I'm in Luke right now. The goal isn't exegesis, but reading comprehension. I'm not out to analyze, just read the language comfortably.
As a lifelong Bible geek, I can't help myself sometimes.
The rich man is in a bad place while Abraham himself is consoling Lazarus. The rich man sees and begs Abraham to send Lazarus to give him a tiny bit of relief.
Why Lazarus? Why not Abraham himself? Why not anybody who's available? And why does he assume Abraham can "send" Lazarus anywhere to do anything?
My hypotenuse: His mind could not conceive of a poor beggar like Lazarus being anything but a servant. Servants serve. So send that servant Lazarus to serve me, please. I'm not suggesting that he despised Lazarus or anything like that, his mindset was just so much into "rich get served, poor serve" he couldn't view any world, not even eternity, any other way.
Thoughts?