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Dives [Lat.,=rich], traditional name of the unnamed rich man of the parable in the Gospel of St. Luke.

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Dives Unnamed rich man. Luke 16: 19–31 is the only parable of Jesus in which a character is given a name (Lazarus) and it has become usual also to attach the name Dives to the other actor in the story. It is from the Latin Vulgate (dives = wealthy).

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Dives (Lat., ‘rich’). A word which has become a convenient, almost a proper, name for the unnamed rich man in the parable, Lk. 16: 19–31.

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