Luke 16:26

“And besides all this, etc.] The different circumstances of each, both past and present, which should be observed and considered: between us and you there is a great gulf fixed; as this may regard the state of the Pharisees after death, it intends not the natural distance between heaven and hell; though there may be an allusion to the notions of the Jews concerning that, who on those words in (<210714>Ecclesiastes 7:14). “God hath set the one over against the other”, say f511, “this is hell and paradise, what space is there between them? an hand's breadth; R. Jochanan says a wall, but the Rabbans say, they are both of them even, so that they may look out of one into another.” Which passage is…”

“besides all this--independently of this consideration. a great gulf fixed--By an irrevocable decree there has been placed a vast impassable abyss between the two states, and the occupants of each.”

“A great gulf - The word translated “gulf” means chasm, or the broad, yawning space between two elevated objects. In this place it means that there is no way of passing from one to the other. Fixed - Strengthened - made firm or immovable. It is so established that it will never be movable or passable. It will forever divide heaven and hell. Which would pass - We are not to press this passage literally, as if those who are in heaven would “desire” to go and visit the wicked in the world of woe. The simple meaning of the statement is, that there can be no communication between the one and the other - there can be no passing from one to the other. It is impossible to conceive that the righteous…”

“Beside this there is a great gulf fixed - Reader, to which side of it wilt thou go? Luke 16:28”

“16:26 No one can cross over to you from here: A person’s state after death is permanent.”

“between: Sa1 25:36; Psa 49:14; Eze 28:24; Mal 3:18; Th2 1:4-10; Jam 1:11, Jam 1:12; Jam 5:1-7 they pass: Luk 12:59; Psa 50:22; Mat 25:46; Joh 3:36; Th2 1:9; Rev 20:10, Rev 22:11 Luke 16:28”