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Thread #47438   Message #707503
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
09-May-02 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Dives and Lazarus-or vice versa(Child 56)
Subject: RE: Help: Dives and Lazarus - or vice versa
he is unnamed, just 'a certain rich man', in Luke, but has become known as Dives, I think because by misunderstanding the meaning of the Latin noun became the Proper name. We might call it the story of Rich and Lazarus if we were rewriting it in today's idiom. And maybe come up with a name that, like Lazarus, means 'helpless', or 'helped by God', Theo---something, if we went the Greek route.