The rich man wants one from the dead to go to his five brethren, or humanity.  Abraham or the Gospel reminds the Jew that Moses and the prophets were as convincing; they would not believe them.  Christ said:  “If ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me for he wrote of me.  If ye believe not him, neither will ye believe, though one arose from the dead.”  Christ in this parable prophesied of his own death and resurrection, they did not believe when he arose from the dead.

Scripture was given a meaning I had never heard of before.  This light continued for about three days.  Oh! if I had devoted all my time then to reading while I had this divine light!  We never know the value of any blessing, until it is gone.  Persons almost universally say of me:  “You have studied and remember so much of the Bible,” but this is a gift from God.  I know why God gave this to me.  Because I have always been a reader and a student of holy teachings, even when it was sealed, and often to me, contradictory.  “If any will do His will, they shall know of the doctrine.”  Jesus said:  “Search the Scriptures.”  “Study to show thyself a workman well approved unto God, that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly divining the word of truth.”  ’Tis a sweet love letter by an independent God to a dependent people.  “Oh! the depth of the wisdom, both of the knowledge and power of God!  How unsearchable are his judgements and his ways past finding out.”  Yet His love can be felt and known by all.  Not one of the severe judgements of God but they reflect this tender love of God, in destroying that which love hates, because sin is the enemy of love, the bitter foe to the happiness of mankind; therefore ’tis an evidence of the intensity of love to destroy sin.  Take for instance the destruction of the Amalekites.  This people was a curse to the earth and the enemy of all good.  “Remember what Amalek did unto thee, by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt.”  “How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindermost of thee, even all that were behind thee when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.  Therefore it shall be when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from thine enemies, thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”  God waited four hundred years from this time.  They still were murderers.  Then he told Saul to utterly destroy this cruel nation.  The state kills a man now.  This is not a cruelty but a mercy, “And those which remain shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil.” “’Tis a righteous retribution to recompense tribulation to those who trouble you.”