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unusual facts about Rich man and Lazarus


In paradisum

The melodic highpoint in this setting comes on the name of Lazarus, the poor beggar in Luke's Gospel.


Annas

Although Annas is not mentioned by name in the plot to kill Lazarus, several 19th-century writers such as Johann Nepomuk Sepp and the Abbé Drioux, considered that there may be a concealed reference to Annas in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus which points at a "Rich man" with five sons.


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